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Peter Jacobs (1808‒58) was the adopted name of Pahtahsega (literally, “he who comes shining,” or “one who makes the world brighter”), an Ojibwa Indian who was an early convert to Christianity of the English Methodist missionary William Case. Born near Rice Lake in present-day southeastern Ontario, in 1842 Jacobs traveled to England where he was ordained as a Methodist minister. He worked for many years as a missionary in the vast region then known as Hudson’s Bay Territory. Journal of the Reverend Peter Jacobs is his account of ...