J D Rittenhouse

J. D. Rittenhouse is a retired attorney who became interested in his family history as a young man when he learned of a famous poet named Jessie Rittenhouse.

His parents divorced while he was still a baby. Because of the demands on women inthe workforce during WWII he was placed in a home where he lived off and on until he was about 10 years old. He knew very little about the paternal side of his family. After learning of Jesse Rittenhouse he then found out that his ninth great-grandfather built the first paper mill in North America.

Excited by these findings he then dug a little deeper and found that is seventh grade uncle was the first Secretary of the United States Mint. Further inquiry into his family history had to wait until his retirement from his law practice fifteen years ago. For the last 15 years Mr. Rittenhouse has been researching and writing about his family history.

He was born in Flint, Michigan and spent his formative years in Lansing. Now a widower, he is currently a resident of San Diego, California.