Arthur 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 1275
 
     ARTHUR W. SCHURMAN,* Who is a prosperous business man of
Portsmouth, N. H., is proprietor of a seed and implement store. He has been
a life long resident of this city and enjoys an extended acquaintance among
the citizens of Rockingham County.
     Mr. Schurman was born in Portsmouth, and is a son of Solomon A. and
Clara (Mason) Schurman, natives of Nova Scotia but now residents of Ports-
mouth. Solomon A. Schurman is a farmer by occupation and was founder
of the business now conducted by the subject of this record. He is a repub-
lican in politics, and with his family attends the Methodist Church. He and
Mrs. Schurman became parents of the following children: Joseph L. James
Albert, Willis S., Blake T., Arthur W., Walter S., and Milton G.
     Arthur W. Schurman attended the grade and high schools of Portsmouth,
after which he pursued a commercial course of study. He worked with his
father on the farm Some four years, then engaged in the milk business for a
period of three years. He next became identified with the seed and imple-
ment house established in Portsmouth by his father in 1894. He purchased
the latter's business in 1903, and has since conducted the store in a highly
successful manner, enjoying a wide patronage over the county. He now has
four men in his employ. He is unmarried and makes his home with his
parents on the Sherbourn road. He also is a republican, and is a loyal member
of the Order of Elks.

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