Jacob R. Wortendyke, of the fifth generation, born May 5, 1764, died December 18, 1858, married December 7, 1792, Elizabeth Campbell, born October 26, 1773, died March 20, 1862. He was a farmer and resided at Paseack. Their children of the sixth generation were Lutische, Rynier J., and Elizabeth. Of these, Rynier J. (6th gen.), born August 16, 1793, died December 3, 1884, married, January 10, 1818, Cornelia Haring, who died August 12, 1891. They resided at Pascack. Their children of the seventh generation were Jacob R., Peter R., Garret, and Elizabeth.

Jacob R. Wortendyke (7th gen.) was born at Pascack, N. J., November 27, 1818, and died at Jersey City, November 2, 1868. He married, June 2, 1853, Susan J. Doremus, born August 9, 1826, who now resides in Jersey City. Jacob R. Wortendyke was graduated from Rutgers College in 1839, after which he read law in the office and became a partner of Chancellor A. O. Zabriskie. After his admission to the bar lie was successful in his practice and held numerous official positions in Hudson County. He organized the Jersey City Water Board and served as a member of the Riparian Commission. In 1857 he was elected to Congress from the Hudson district and served two terms in that body. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. His children of the eighth generation were Nicholas D., Cornelia E., Rynier J., Jacob (died), and Jacob R.

Rynier J. Wortendyke (8th gen.), the subject of this sketch, was born in Jersey City, N. J., August 24, 1860, and has always resided there. Having received a thorough preparatory education, he entered Rutgers College and was graduated from that institution with honors in the class of 1882. He then took up the study of law with James B. Vredenburgh at Jersey City, and after the usual course was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1S85, and as a counselor in June, 1888. He has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in his native city. He is a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, a public spirited and patriotic citizen, a man of broad and accurate learning, and a leading factor in the affairs of the city in which he was born, and in which he has Spent his life.