Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 22, 1897, p. 2. CHARLES CLERFERT CRITICALLY ILL Wealthy Man and an Uncle of Mrs. Charles P. Collins of This City Charles Clerfert continues dangerously ill at Norton Infirmary. Mr. Clerfert is an uncle of Mrs. Charles P. Collins, 52 East Market Street, and for two years has been boarding at the Galt House, Louisville. Mr. Clerfert came from San Francisco where, for thirty years, he with Senator Fair conoducted the Lick House. He is suffering from softening of the brain, is eighty-one years old and wealthy. It is said that he has one of the finest art galleries on the Pacific slope.