Jacques Vieau

[1] Also known as 'Jeambeau", Jacques Vieux was a descendent of a colonial French family that originally settled in Quebec City.

He was related to Nicolas Le Vieux de Hauteville,[2] lieutenant-general for civil and criminal affairs in the seneschal’s court at Quebec.

Vieux was employed by the North West Company, developing trade roads from Quebec City to the Algonquines and Petawatomi Nations to what is today Kansas.

His Milwaukee cabin was built on top of a bluff overlooking the Menomonee Valley and became his winter residence away from Green Bay.

[citation needed] In 1818, Vieau hired another French-Canadian named Solomon Juneau, who later married his daughter Josette and went on to found what was to become the City of Milwaukee.