The son of David Wortman and Mary Churchill, his mother died in 1826, when he was only 10, and his father remarried later that same year and moved to the USA. Jacob would be taken by a relative named "Lamb" and raised in Dorchester, NB.
He was the great grandson of Georg Wortman, one of the original 8 families of German and Welsh settlers that arrived on 3 June 1766 at Hall's Creek having sailed from Pennsylvania, up the Bay of Fundy.
The history of his life is an interesting one, and at the time, probably no better known man in the province. He married Mary Hicks in 1835 in Dorchester, NB, and at the time was the Jail Keeper, an office he held for a number of years. He also practiced law, although not a lawyer in the direct sense of the word, he pleaded cases with surprising success and contested with lawyers of the bar.
In 1844, he came to Moncton, when it was known as the Bend. He went into the hotel business on Duke Street, known simply as the Duke Street Hotel. He kept a livery and ran the stage coach business in Moncton and Saint John, besides doing the principal part of the legal business done in that place.
In 1858 he served as the Mayor of Moncton, and eventually went out of the hotel and stage coach business and turned his attention exclusively to the practice of law.
In 1877 he was appointed by the local government to the office of Stipendiary Magistrate for the city of Moncton, and was a Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate. As evidence we can look to the McMillan's Agricultural and Nautical Almanac for 1894 for New Brunswick, page 146 for Westmorland County.
He was the great grandson of Georg Wortman, one of the original 8 families of German and Welsh settlers that arrived on 3 June 1766 at Hall's Creek having sailed from Pennsylvania, up the Bay of Fundy.
The history of his life is an interesting one, and at the time, probably no better known man in the province. He married Mary Hicks in 1835 in Dorchester, NB, and at the time was the Jail Keeper, an office he held for a number of years. He also practiced law, although not a lawyer in the direct sense of the word, he pleaded cases with surprising success and contested with lawyers of the bar.
In 1844, he came to Moncton, when it was known as the Bend. He went into the hotel business on Duke Street, known simply as the Duke Street Hotel. He kept a livery and ran the stage coach business in Moncton and Saint John, besides doing the principal part of the legal business done in that place.
In 1858 he served as the Mayor of Moncton, and eventually went out of the hotel and stage coach business and turned his attention exclusively to the practice of law.
In 1877 he was appointed by the local government to the office of Stipendiary Magistrate for the city of Moncton, and was a Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate. As evidence we can look to the McMillan's Agricultural and Nautical Almanac for 1894 for New Brunswick, page 146 for Westmorland County.
The son of David Wortman and Mary Churchill, his mother died in 1826, when he was only 10, and his father remarried later that same year and moved to the USA. Jacob would be taken by a relative named "Lamb" and raised in Dorchester, NB.
He was the great grandson of Georg Wortman, one of the original 8 families of German and Welsh settlers that arrived on 3 June 1766 at Hall's Creek having sailed from Pennsylvania, up the Bay of Fundy.
The history of his life is an interesting one, and at the time, probably no better known man in the province. He married Mary Hicks in 1835 in Dorchester, NB, and at the time was the Jail Keeper, an office he held for a number of years. He also practiced law, although not a lawyer in the direct sense of the word, he pleaded cases with surprising success and contested with lawyers of the bar.
In 1844, he came to Moncton, when it was known as the Bend. He went into the hotel business on Duke Street, known simply as the Duke Street Hotel. He kept a livery and ran the stage coach business in Moncton and Saint John, besides doing the principal part of the legal business done in that place.
In 1858 he served as the Mayor of Moncton, and eventually went out of the hotel and stage coach business and turned his attention exclusively to the practice of law.
In 1877 he was appointed by the local government to the office of Stipendiary Magistrate for the city of Moncton, and was a Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate. As evidence we can look to the McMillan's Agricultural and Nautical Almanac for 1894 for New Brunswick, page 146 for Westmorland County.
He was the great grandson of Georg Wortman, one of the original 8 families of German and Welsh settlers that arrived on 3 June 1766 at Hall's Creek having sailed from Pennsylvania, up the Bay of Fundy.
The history of his life is an interesting one, and at the time, probably no better known man in the province. He married Mary Hicks in 1835 in Dorchester, NB, and at the time was the Jail Keeper, an office he held for a number of years. He also practiced law, although not a lawyer in the direct sense of the word, he pleaded cases with surprising success and contested with lawyers of the bar.
In 1844, he came to Moncton, when it was known as the Bend. He went into the hotel business on Duke Street, known simply as the Duke Street Hotel. He kept a livery and ran the stage coach business in Moncton and Saint John, besides doing the principal part of the legal business done in that place.
In 1858 he served as the Mayor of Moncton, and eventually went out of the hotel and stage coach business and turned his attention exclusively to the practice of law.
In 1877 he was appointed by the local government to the office of Stipendiary Magistrate for the city of Moncton, and was a Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate. As evidence we can look to the McMillan's Agricultural and Nautical Almanac for 1894 for New Brunswick, page 146 for Westmorland County.
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