James W. Schurman Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

Surname: SCHURMAN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915


Page 1281

     JAMES W. SCHURMAN,* representative of Ward Three in the council
of the city of Portsmouth, N. H., is a well known citizen and business man.
He is engaged in supplying ice in the city, running two teams, and has a well
established business.
     Mr. Schurman was born in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, in 1848,
and is a son of Isaac and Miriam (Lowe) Schurman. The mother died while
they were on a visit to Portsmouth, and Mr. Schurman returned to Nova
Scotia, where he remained until his death. He was an agriculturist. The
mother was of the Baptist faith, her father having been a Baptist minister,
while the Schurmans are Methodists. They reared a family of eleven children,
of whom eight are living.
     James W. Schurman was reared in his native county, where he attended
school until he was sixteen years old. He was engaged in various kinds of
work until he came to the United States about the year 1878. He located
immediately in Portsmouth, N. H., and for a period of four years was em-
pIoyed by H. A. Yeaton in the grain business. He next rented and conducted
a farm for two years and at the end of that time embarked in the ice business,
which he has carried on since witn uninterrupted success.
     In 1879 Mr. Schurman was married to Miss Katie McCauley, who was
born on Prince Edward Island. They have had the following children :
Miriam; Anna, wife of A. D. Foster, bookkeeper for the electric company at
Dover, N. H. ; and James Maxwell. who died at the age of nine years. The
subject of this record is a republican in politics. He is a member of Blue.
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of Osgood Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Religiously the
family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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