Obituary: Jacob G. Schurman, Ex-Envoy to Reich, Succumbs at 88
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), August 12 1942, P. 3, Col. 1

"NEW YORK, Aug. 12— Jacob Gould Schurman, 88. former Ambassador to Germany and former president of Cornell University, died today at Memorial Hospital.
  He was in Berlin from 1925 to December. 1929. when he retired.
  He also was United States Minister to China from 1920 to 1924. In 1899 Dr. Schurman was named by President McKinley as head of the first Philippine Commission and helped draw up the original charter.
  After devoting more than 30 years to Cornell University as professor and president. Dr. Schurman turned from the field of education to achieve distinction in the diplomatic service."
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"Dr. Schurman was the father-in law of Brig. Gen. John Magruder, now stationed in Washington. Another daughter, Barbara Petro Pavlovsky, wife of Maj. Vladimir Petro-Pavlovsky of the British Army, is a passenger on the Gripsholm. the ship carrying Allied citizens from the Orient under diplomatic exchange.
  Other survivors are his sons, Judge Jacob Gould Schurman of the New York Court of General Sessions and George M. Schurman of Bedford Hills, N. Y. and a daughter. Mrs. Robert Hawes of Washington."