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and subsequently a Free Soil, Democrat, and in 1856 joined the Republican party. He was New York, aud subsequently United States, commis- sioner to the Vienna exposition of 1873; director of the Park bank from its organization to 1880; one of the governors of the New York hospital and Bloomingdale asylum, 18G0; member of the committee of seventy in exposing the Tweed conspiracy; a member of the New York Hide and Leather club, and of the chamber of com- merce, 1865-91, and of the board of management of the Veteran Association of the Seventh Regi- ment of New York. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Colby in 1867. He is the author of: Leather Manufacture in the United States. He died in New York city, March 1, 1891. His pall bearers, March 5, 1891, included: Abram S. Hewitt, Cyrus W. Field, L. G. B. Cannon, C. M. Depew, D. B. Eaton, Joseph H. Choate, George Bliss, T. C. Acton, Isaac H. Bailey, Charles S. Smith. H. E. Tremain, and other leading New York citizens.

SCHUMAKER, John Godfrey, representative, was born in Claverack, N.Y., June 36, 1826; son of John M. and Maria (Vanderpoel) Schumaker; grandson of John Godfrey and Anna Maria Scliumaker and of Barent and Catharine Van- derpoel. His first maternal ancestor in America, Wynant Gerritse Van Der Poel, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, about 1620, and arrived in Bever\vyck(now Albany) in 1654; he died in 1699. The first paternal ancester in America, Daniel Schumaker, came from the Palatine, Germany, Nov. 10, 1711. He attended the Lenox, Mass., academy, 1841, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He was married, Aug. 2, 1852, to Caroline, daughter of Thomas and Mary Mills of London, England. He removed to Brooklyn in 1853, and three years later was elected district-attorney for Kings county. He was a member of the state constitutional conventions, 1862, 1867 and 1894; was corporation counsel for Brooklyn in 1862 and in 1864, and was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1864. He was a Democratic representative in the 41st congress, 1869-71, and in the 43d and 44th con- gresses, 1873-77. In 1903 he was a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., and was engaged in the practice of law in New York city.

SCHUREMAN, James, senator, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., Feb. 12, 1756; son of John and Antje (de Riemer) Strycker Schureman; and a grandson of Jacobus and Antje (Terhune) Schureman aud of Isaac and Antje (Woertman) de Riemer. Jacobus Schureman came from Holland in 1717, and settled at Three Mile Run, N.J. James Schureman was graduated at Queen's college, A.B., 1773, A.M., 1776; com- manded a volunteer company at the battle of

Long Island in 1775, and was commissioned 2d lieutenant. Colonel Neilson's battalion of minute men, Jan. 10, 1776. He was 2d lieutenant in the Middlesex militia, and in 1777 was captured near New Brunswick, and imprisoned in the New York sugar house. He subsequently escaped with a companion by digging through the wall, and joined the army at Morristown, N.J. He was married, Jan. 28, 1778, to Eleanor, daughter of David and Eleanor Schuyler Williamson of Cranberry, N.J. He was a repi-esentative in the general assembly of New Jersey, 1783-85 and 1788; a delegate to the convention at Annapolis, Md., in 1786, and to the Continental congress in 1786; and was a Federalist representative from New Jersey in the 1st, 5th and 13th congresses. 1789-91, 1797-99 and 1813-15. He was elected to the U.S. senate to succeed Franklin Davenport and complete the term of John Rutherford, re- signed, and after serving, 1799-1801, he resigned in 1801, and was succeeded by Aaron Ogden. He was a member of the state council and senate, 1808-12; mayor of New Brunswick, N.J.; and a trustee of Rutgers college for several years. He died in New Brunswick, N.J.. Jan. 22, 1824.

SCHURMAN, Jacob Gould, educator, was born in Freetown, Prince Edward Island, May 22, 1854; son of Robert and Lydia (Gouldrup) Schur- man; grandson of Caleb and Mary (Lefurgey) Schurman and of Jacob and Charlotte (Davis) Gouldrup and a de- scendant of Jacobus Schureman, who

came from Holland in 1717 to New Am- sterdam, and settled at Three Mile Run, N.J. His grand- father, Caleb Schur- man, was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., 1782, and in 1784 was carried by his father, who belonged to the Tory party, to the British provinces. Jacob Gould Schur- man was brought up on his father's farm; at- tended the common schools until 1867; clerked in a general store in the neighboring town of Summerside, 1867-69. where he attended the grammar school in 1869, and the following year entered Prince of Wales college. Charlottetown, having won the first government scholarship of S60. He completed the course in 1872; taught school for one year, and was a student in Acadia college, Nova Scotia, 1873-75. In the latter year he was awarded the Canadian Gilchrist annual scholarship of $500 for three years to be spent at