Page 351, "Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri""...The Chrisman-Sawyer Banking Company is the outgrowth of the Independence Savings Institution, and is, therefore, one of the oldest banking houses now in existence in Missouri...", p. 351, The Southern History Company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors, 1901.
Page 351, "Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri" The Southern History Company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors, 1901. "...[Chrisman-Sawyer] was the only Jackson County bank that went through the trying experiences of the panic of 1873 without succumbing to the financial stringency of that well remembered time..."
