James Frederick Schön (1802, in Ober Weiler – 30 March 1889, in Chatham) was a German missionary and linguist who was active in Sierra Leone.
[1][2] After attending the Basel Seminary, Schön attended the Church Missionary Society College in London;[1][3] he was ordained as a priest in 1832 and immediately went to Sierra Leone.
He remained active with the Church Missionary Society until 1853.
[3] They had one daughter, Annie Catherine, who married a CMS missionary named Edward Thomas Higgens.
[5] His second wife was Cordelia Jackson Irwine; he later married Elizabeth Catherine Drake, the widow of James White, another CMS missionary.