Jeremiah (Jerry) T. Kearns (c.1858-May 26, 1941) was a Canadian general store keeper who co-founded the Chesterville gold mine.

Kearns was born in Finch, Ontario and relocated to Chesterville where he ran the townships general store.

[2] In 1906, Herman Hummel, Jesse Elliot, Wesley Barkley and Kearns went prospecting for gold near Lake Present in Ontario.

Hummel spotted a white crystal in a rock and with Kearns removed it from a cliff face and broke it open to discovered gold.

[6] The group incorporated the Chesterfield Larder Lake Gold Mining Company on March 20,[1] 1907.