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George Phillip Doern (Louisville, Kentucky, editor of the "Anzeiger")

b. 1829-09-16 d. 1878-11-11

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Native of Germany. Son of George W. Doern and Elizabeth Doern. Married to Barbara Tomppert Doern in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 2, 1851. Father of Ophelia Doern, Elizabeth Doern, and Lisette Doern. Founded the Anzeiger with Otto Scheefer in Louisville on March 1, 1849. Type setter in Louisville in 1850. Editor of the Anzeiger from 1849 through 1865. Justice of the peace in Jefferson County in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 237B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 165.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 898.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707.

"Jefferson County Court," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), March 4, 1865, p. 4.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 74.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 275.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 135.

The City of Louisville and a Glimpse of Kentucky, (Committee on Industrial and Commercial Improvement of the Louisville Board of Trade, 1887), 144.

"George Phillip Doern (1829-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 155368406 , accessed June 19, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155368406 .

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Doern, George Phillip. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215026 (November 12, 2026).

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