Sherfy, Chalmers M.

Born: 1831-01-01 Hagerstown, Maryland

Died: 1901-01-08 Urbana, Illinois

Flourished: Urbana, Illinois

Chalmers M. Sherfy was a clerk, cashier, and banker. After spending his childhood in and near Hagerstown, Maryland, he moved to Perryville, Indiana, while a young man. He remained there for some decades and worked as a clerk before, when in the early 1850s, he relocated to Urbana, Illinois. He worked in Urbana first as a cashier for the Cattle Bank. He and D. Gardner later started their own banking firm, D. Gardner & Company, which Sherfy managed while also working as the bank's cashier. By 1860, he owned $8,000 in real estate and another $1,575 in personal property.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Perrysville, Vermillion County, IN, 54; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Champaign, Champaign County, IL, 372; George W. Hawes, Illinois State Gazetteer and Business Directory, for 1858 and 1859 (Chicago: George W. Hawes, 1859), 216; The Champaign County News (IL), 12 January 1901, 2:1; Gravestone, Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Urbana, IL.