Zachariah Madison Sherley

Birth Date

1811-05-07

Death Date

1879-02-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat captain, boat store keeper, and businessman. Virginia native. Married to Nanine Taylor Sherley in Jefferson County on September 8, 1835. Married to Susan W. Cromwell Sherley in Fayette County on February 14, 1856. Father of John C. Sherley, Lewis Sherley, Thomas H. Sherley, Benjamin J. Sherley, and George W. Sherley. Steamboat furnisher in Louisville in 1860. Partner in Louisville & Cincinnati United States Mail Line in Louisville in 1862. Partner with Richard H. Woolfolk and Lewis A. Sherley in Sherley, Woolfolk, & Co., in Louisville in 1865. President of the board of directors of the Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Co. in Louisville. Founder of Citizens National Bank in Louisville. Trustee for the medical college at the University of Louisville in Louisville. Member of the board of trustees of the Kentucky Institute for the Blind in Louisville. Trustee of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 122.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 55A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482706, p. 160.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Fayette County Marriages, p. 1.
"Sherley, Zachariah Madison 'Zachary'" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 814.
Louisville, Kentucky, City Directory (1865), U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, p. 528 (accessed via ancestry.com).

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