SHERMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
A.D. Norling came to Sherman County in the spring of 1881 from Illinois. After arriving in the west at age twenty, he worked in the Colorado silver mines, worked on a cattle ranch in Nevada, and then returned to Illinois to study pharmacy. He was a witness for men filing Homestead claims while living in Bentora in 1886 and again while living in the Hazard area. In March of 1892, he started a new business, Norling & Co., with Dr. J. L. Goff as his partner. Dr. Goff’s ads in The Litchfield Monitor listed him as a homeopathic physician; A. D. Norling was a druggist. Lester Kisling, a jeweler, had a business in Norling’s Drug Store for a time.
(A May 1896 newspaper ad says the business is “Empire Drug Store”, with drugs, medicines, school books, cigars, and Nebraska land for sale.)
