Henry SCHURMAN, from Lacona, served as Trustee for Whitebreast Township 1933-1938. (Source: Financial Report compiled by the County Auditor.)
In the 1920s Henry SCHURMAN tore down the building which had originally been the McClurg chapel which had been used as a chapel, church, lecture hall, dance hall, and a home over the years since it had been built in 1869. (Source - Chronology of the early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and John FORD sometime around 1980.)