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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Francis Asbury, Peter Jones, Francis Dunlap Gamewell, Justus Henry Nelson, John Gale, John Philip Newman, Pleasant Tackitt, George Abernethy, Joseph Crane Hartzell, Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, Mary Clarke Nind, Henry Augustus Buchtel, Martin Ruter, James Hope Moulton, William Henry Singleton, Thomas Crosby, Alexander Robert Edgar, Hannah Dudley, Jo Carr, Charles Oswald Lelean, Philip Potter, John McKendree Springer, Don Wendell Holter, William Henry Pierce, Daniel Coker, Hobart Baumann Amstutz, William Edward Soothill, Josua Mateinaniu, Joeli Bulu, James Evans, John Manton, Joseph Waterhouse, Henry Hare Dugmore, Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer, James Joseph Meadows, Thomas Baker, James Endicott, Alan Tippett, Bowman Foster Stockwell, Ilaijia Varani, Sailasa Naucukidi, Ole Peter Petersen, Daniel Parish Kidder, George Richard Crooks, Enos Nuttall, Thomas Birch Freeman, Thomas Johnson, John Stewart, James Woodsworth. Excerpt: Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 - June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwa Methodist minister, translator, chief and author from Burlington Heights, Upper Canada. His Ojibwa name was Kahkew quon by (Gakiiwegwanebi in the Fiero spelling), which means " Waving Feathers." In Mohawk, he was called Desagondensta, meaning "he stands people on their feet." In his youth his band of Mississaugas had been on the verge of destruction. As a preacher and a chieftain, as a role model and as a liaison to governments, his leadership helped his people survive contact with Europeans. Jones was raised by his mother Tuhbenahneequay in the traditional culture and religion of the Mississauga Ojibwas until the age of 14. After that, he went to live with his father Augustus Jones, a Welsh-born United Empire Loyalist. There he learnt the customs and language of the white Christian settlers of Upper Canada and was taught how to farm. Jones...
