Charles Blue Jacket

Charles Blue Jacket (1817 – October 29, 1897)[1] was a Shawnee chief in Kansas, as well as a Methodist minister.

His maternal grandmother was the daughter of a Shawnee woman and Jacques Baby.

However, a very short time after Blue Jacket's birth, the family moved to Piqua, Ohio.

[3] Also, in 1855, Blue Jacket and two of his brothers opened a ferry on the Wakarusa River at Lawrence, Kansas, called Blue Jacket's Crossing.

Two of his sons served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and one of his daughters-in-law killed one of the raiders under William Quantrill who had invaded her home.