Jacques Vieau

Jacques Vieau (or Vieaux), born Jacques Le Vieux (Montreal QC, May 5, 1757 – July 1, 1852, Howard, Wisconsin) was a French-Canadian fur trader and the first permanent white settler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 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, 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. He died in Howard, Wisconsin.


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