John Tecumseh Jones

John Tecumseh “Tauy” Jones (1800-1873, Chippewa) was a leading businessman and Baptist minister.

[1] John Tecumseh Jones was born in Canada in 1808[2][3] to a Chippewa (Ojibwe) mother and a father of British ancestry.

Jones spent his earliest years with a sister and her blacksmith husband on Mackinac Island in Michigan.

He reacquired a knowledge of regional Indigenous languages as preparation for a mission to Native Americans.

Jones acquired a trading post in 1848 from a trader named Roby on what is now Tauy Creek.

While serving in 1860 as a representative of the Ottawa tribe, Jones suggested founding an integrated white and Indian school.