Sherman D. Canfield   

Ex-commissioner and supt. Of the department of finance, accounts and public property, city of Sheridan; postmaster Sheridan; (Dem.); b. September. 3, 1865, Cuming County, Nebraska; s. of George and Lucy (Rhodes) Canfield; educ. pub. schls. Omaha; student University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1880-3; clerk in general superintendent’s office Union Pacific Ry., Omaha, 1883-7; personal representative and confidential secretary to Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) in Europe and America, 1887-8 and 1890-3; supt. Railroad facilities for Union Stockyard Co., South Omaha, 1880-90; located in Wyoming, 1892; manager and one of the proprietors (W. F. Cody Hotel Co.) of the Sheridan Inn, Sheridan, Wyo., 1893-6; engaged in cattle business on Powder River, 1896-1904; purchased horses for the British government during the Boer war, 1900-1; timber contractor, Shoshoni Forces Reserve, 1904-5; general agent Wyoming Coal Mining Co., 1906-9; supt. Of preliminary surveys of proposed railroad between Miles City, Mont., and Sheridan city council, 1895-9; elected in 1911 as one of the first commissioners of the city of Sheridan under the commission form of government; re-elected 1913; appointed postmaster Sheridan, March 3, 1915, and resigned city commissionership; member Masons, Knights Templar, Shriner; Elks; Sheridan Chamber of Commerce, Address: Sheridan, Wyoming.

Source: Men ofWyoming, By C. S. Peterson, Publ 1915.

Transcribed by:   Anna Parks