W. L. Surbrook was a member of the Pilgrim Holiness Church. He served as an evangelist, teacher, writer, and as president of the Pilgrim Bible College, Kernersville, North Carolina, and also as president of the Owosso Bible Seminary, Owosso, Michigan.

      WHis being of Scotch descent, furnished the love, sympathy, and tenderness of the home. The ancestry on his father's side are all of Swiss-German extraction; and his father supplied the indomitable courage, fortitude and stern bravery of a general.