BIO: Jacob W. SCEURMAN, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 393 & 394.
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  JACOB W. SCEURMAN, manager of the Grampian Supply Company store, at Grampian, 
Pa., secretary of the school board and also treasurer of the school funds, is 
one of the enterprising business men and leading citizens of the place.  He was 
born February 1, 1869, at Philipsburg, Center county, Pa., and is a son of 
Thomas L. and Sarah (Williams) Sceurman.
  Thomas L. Sceurman was born at Plainfield, N. J.  He was reared in Monroe 
county, Pa., and married Sarah Williams, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Williams.  Sarah Williams was born at Saylorsburg, Monroe county, Pa.  They 
became the parents of one son and three daughters:  Jacob W.; Lydia, who died 
when five years old; Katherine, who is the wife of Samuel K. Waring, of East 
Liberty, Pa.; and Mary M., who is the wife of E. D. Vandling, of Clearfield, 
Clearfield county; they have two children - Katherine and Robert.  Thomas L. 
Sceurman was a lumberman and later a carpenter.  His death occurred February 9, 
1889, at the age of fifty-three years.  His widow died December 12, 1909, aged 
77 years.  They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Philipsburg 
and they were interred in the cemetery belonging to that town.
  Jacob W. Sceurman went to school through boyhood at Philipsburg and his first 
self-supporting work was done in a brickyard.  He was sixteen years old when he 
became a clerk in the general store of Wythes & Huffington, at Philipsburg, 
where he remained for four years.  Afterward he was with C. Munson & Son, and 
subsequently with A. J. Graham, O. P. Jones and the Onnalinda Supply Company, 
at Onnalinda, in Cambria county, Pa., going from there to the Valley Supply 
Company, in Washington county.  Mr. Sceurman was connected with the last named 
concern for one and one-half years and then came to Grampian.  His long 
experience had well qualified him in the line of merchandising and he became a 
valued employe of M. Burns, whose business was later reorganized as the 
Grampian Supply Company, in which Mr. Sceurman is interested as a stockholder, 
and of which he is general manager.
  On June 17, 1903, Mr. Sceurman was married to Miss Anna R. Carr, who was born 
in Woodland, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Carr, of Karthaus township, and they 
have one daughter, Sarah Katherine.  Mrs. Sceurman died December 11, 1909, and 
her burial was at Philipsburg.  She was a lady of many virtues and was a valued 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Mr. Sceurman also belongs to this 
religious body and is liberal in the support he gives to its benevolent 
enterprises.  Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Malta.