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	MARQUETTE - LoveToKnow Article on MARQUETTE
		MARQUETTE, a city, a port of entry and the county seat of Marquette county, Michigan U.S.A., on the south shore of Lake Superior.
		It is served by the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic, the Marquette and South-Eastern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, the Chicago and North-Western, and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railways.
		Marquette is the seat of the Northern State Normal School (established 1899) and of the state house of correction and branch prison (established 1885).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MARQUETTE.htm (674 words)

	Jacques Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leave was granted, and in 1673 Marquette was joined by Louis Joliet (French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)), a French Canadian explorer.
		Marquette stopped at the mission of St. Francis Xavier in Green Bay (A city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan) in September, while Joliet returned to Quebec to relate the good news of their discoveries.
		Marquette returned to the Illinois River in 1674 to found a mission among the Illinois people on the shore of Lake Michigan (The 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest fresh-water lake entirely within the United States borders).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jacques_marquette.htm (590 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jacques Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Marquette, S.J. Jesuit missionary and discoverer of the Mississippi River, b.
		In the meanwhile accounts of the Mississippi had reached Quebec, and while Marquette was preparing for the voyage and awaiting the season of navigation, Joliet came to join the expedition.
		Marquette drew a map of the country through which they passed and kept a diary of the voyage; this diary with its clear, concise style is one of the most important and interesting documents of American History (Jesuit Relations, LIX, 86, 164).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jacques-Marquette (1826 words)

	Native Americans:Historic:The Illinois:History:Exploration
		Arrival of Marquette and Jolliet at the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, 1673.
		Jacques Marquette's opportunity to visit the Illinois finally arose in 1673, when he accompanied Louis Jolliet, a young Canadian fur trader, on an expedition to explore the Mississippi River.
		Marquette spoke to a council of more than 1,500 chiefs, elders, and young men, who formed a great circle around him on a "beautiful prairie" adorned with reed mats and bearskins.
	www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/hi_explore.html (627 words)

	Father Jacques Marquette
		This intelligence was sent back to Quebec, and Fathers Marquette and Dablon, two energetic priests, set out to explore the mysterious land and plant the banner of the Cross in the very heart of the heathen world.
		Marquette and his companions spread light sails over their canoes and voyaged quite rapidly on the bosom of the Mississippi with winds and currents, past the inflowing waters of the Missouri and Ohio, and other less tributaries, stopping on the shores and holding friendly intercourse with the natives.
		Marquette's remains lie in the bosom of Michilimackinack or Mackinack.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/fatherjac_jh.html (1028 words)

	Jacques Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Father Marquette was a Jesuit missionary born in Laon, France,who joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen.
		Marquette stopped at the mission of St. Francis Xavier in Green Bay in September, while Joliet returned to Quebec to relatethe good news of their discoveries.
		Marquette returned to the Illinois River in 1674 to found a mission among the Illinoispeople on the site of Chicago on December 4, 1674 (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago).
	www.therfcc.org /jacques-marquette-71277.html (478 words)

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		Jacques to warn him to look out, and he hurried from the main track to the side track, not knowing on which the cars were to be run, and presumably thinking they were going on the main track.
		Jacques was one of the best known and oldest residents of the copper country and deep sympathy is felt for his bereaved family in their affliction by the tragic occurrence at Dollar Bay this morning.
		Jacques was born in Hancock October 27, 1875, and had served in the Catholic priesthood in the diocese of Marquette and Sault Ste.
	www.mfhn.com /houghton/archivestemp/j22001.txt (5495 words)

	The Virtual Museum of New-France: Jacques Marquette
		Jacques Marquette was born June 10, 1637 in Laon, in the old French province of Aisne.
		The discovery of the Mississippi was a comfort to Jacques Marquette in his desire to extend the influence of the missionaries to the west and south.
		Jacques Marquette died the following May 18 "in the midst of the forest", near the present-day city of Luddington, Michigan.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/marqu_e2.html (918 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		Two young men, Louis Joliet, a fur trader, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, were chosen to lead an expedition from a mission at the northeast corner of Lake Michigan into the center of the unknown continent.
		Marquette's robes were recognized and they were welcomed into the village and fed. On their departure, the chief of the village gave them a calumet, a peace pipe, to present to potentially hostile tribes, and lent them his own ten-year-old son, who would help guide them on their journey.
		Marquette told his men to hold their fire and raised the pipe as high as he could, even as a club flew past his head.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_mandj.html (729 words)

	Jacques Marquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Father Jacques Marquette (French: Père Jacques Marquette) (10 June 1637–May 18, 1675) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the Mississippi River.
		Due to wars between the Hurons at La Pointe and the neighboring Dakota people, however, Father Marquette had to relocate to the Mackinac Strait, where he informed his superiors about the rumored river, and requested permission to explore it.
		Marquette returned to the Illinois River in 1674 to found a mission among the Kaskaskia subgroup of the Illinois people, and preached at Starved Rock, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Marquette (554 words)

	Explorers of Canada, Part XIV: Father Jacques Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Marquette was born in Laon, France in 1636.
		Marquette, who is one of the first to begin western exploration, was stationed at a mission in Sault Sainte Marie before he was told to cross the Superior and convert the Illinois Indians.
		Marquette drew maps of the many countries they passed through, the mouth of the Missouri, the Ohio, and lastly the Arkansas, yet feared to venture farther into Spanish territory and returned north, using a shorter path, the Illinois River, to get back to the Illinois country.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/85169 (462 words)

	Marquette, Jacques
		Marquette, Jacques, Jesuit priest, missionary, explorer (b at Laon, France 10 June 1637; d at the mouth of a river later called the Père Marquette R, Mich 18 May 1675).
		Father Marquette was ordained on 7 Mar 1666 and sailed for New France, where he served at Sault Ste Marie and at the mission to the Huron and Ottawa at Chequamegon (SW shore, Lk Superior) before he founded the mission of St-Ignace on the Straits of Mackinac.
		Exhausted and ill from the Mississippi voyage, Marquette journeyed back to the Illinois late in 1674 and opened the mission of La Conception among the Kaskaskia (an Illinois tribe).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005117 (236 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Marquette followed, and in the summer of 1671, founded the mission of Saint-Ignace on the north shore of the straits of Michilimackinac.
		Short claims that Jacques Marquette was not a priest but a catechist, a claim he reiterated in “Jacques Marquette, cathechist,” RUL, III (1948—49), 436f.
		In “Attempted mayhem on Père Marquette,” Mid-America, XXXI (1949), 109—15, Jerome V. Jacobson refutes this, both by arguments taken from the Jesuit Constitutions, and by publishing a new document that records the ordination of a Jacques Marquette at Toul on 7 March 1666.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34519 (1584 words)

	Jacques Marquette
		Jacques R. Marquette -- who was sometimes billed as Jack Marquette -- was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1915, and moved with his family to Hollywood in 1919.
		Jacques Marquette became a cameraman while serving in the United States Army Air Force during the Second World War, in their film division, and after returning to civilian life, he joined Technicolor as a technician.
		Marquette also ended up unexpectedly moving into the director's chair, in addition to producing and overseeing the cameraman, thanks to the sudden departure of the original director for a better paying job, shooting the whole picture in seven days.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P101362 (864 words)

	Marquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marquette was a Canadian electoral district in Manitoba from 1871-1976 -- it is not a current electoral district
		Marquette University is a Jesuit University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
		The Marquette Interchange is in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, right next to Marquette University, and is Wisconsin's busiest traffic hub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marquette (190 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jacques Marquette, S.J.
		But Marquette was yearning for other conquests among the tribes which inhabited the banks of the Mississippi.
		A year later (1675) Marquette started for the village of the Illinois Indians whom he had met on his return voyage, but was overtaken by the cold and forced to spend the winter near the lake (Chicago).
		This statue of Marquette from the chisel of the Italian sculptor, S. Tretanove, is conceded to be one of the most artistic in the Capitol.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09690a.htm (1308 words)

	Marquette and Jolliet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet searched together and found the waters of the Mississippi River.
		Jacques Marquette (also known as Father Marquette) was a Catholic missionary and explorer.
		Jolliet asked Father Marquette to be the chaplain of this group.
	tqjunior.thinkquest.org /4034/marquettejolliet.html (306 words)

	Jacques Marquette Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marquette accompanied the Ottawa and Huron as they fled from Sioux attacks to the Straits of Mackinac (between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron) and founded a new mission on Point St. Ignace.
		Marquette was appointed by Frontenac, governor of New France, to accompany Louis Joliet as chaplain and missionary on an expedition to find this river.
		After his return from the Mississippi expedition, Marquette stayed at Mackinac, recovering his health and writing a journal of the voyage, which was first published in Théévenot's Recueil de voyages in 1681.
	greatriverroad.com /Pere/marquetteBio.htm (446 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jacques Marquette (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Marquette welcomed his appointment by Frontenac, governor of New France, to accompany Louis Jolliet on an expedition to find the river.
		On his return from the Mississippi voyage, Marquette stayed at Mackinac for a time, recovering his health and writing a journal of the voyage, which was first published (1681) in ThEvenot's Recueil de voyages.
		In 1674, Marquette set out to establish a mission in the Illinois (state) area, but his health failed him, and he died on the route back to Mackinac, near present-day Ludington, Mich. In 1677, Marquette's body was removed to St. Ignace.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MarquettJ.html (369 words)

	Father Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Marquette was born on June 10, 1673.
		In 1666 Marquette was sent as a missionary to New France (the French colonies in the New World) where he spent 2 years learning 6 Native American languages.
		Marquette thought it was a great opportunity to spread Christianity among the Indians they may meet on the way to find the river, so in May of 1673 a 7-man expedition set off in birch bark canoes.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002678F/father_marquette.htm (391 words)

	Jacques Largillier: Merchant, Then Missionary - Fr. William Faherty - Museum of the Western Jesuit Missions, St. Louis
		The journal of Father Marquette was not a day-by-day diary of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi.
		In this move, Jacques Largillier became one of the earliest Caucasian residents of the St. Louis area, 64 years before Pierre Laclede set up his trading post and Margaret Blondeau Guion moved across the river to be with her husband and became the first woman to settle in St. Louis, in the spring of 1764.
		He had lived to see Marquette's dream come true, that Christianity had come to the people of Illinois, and that the people of Illinois showed themselves as good as the saintly Father Marquette had said they were.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheBicentennial/Symposium2001/Papers/Faherty_FrWilliam.htm (2714 words)

	Jacques Marquette - Louis Jolliet, French Canadian explorers
		Jacques Marquette was a French explorer and Roman Catholic missionary in North America.
		He and Jacques Marquette, a French missionary, were probably the first white explorers to reach the upper Mississippi and parts of Illinois and Wisconsin.
		Marquette, a Jesuit priest who had worked among the Indians as a missionary and knew their languages, was chosen to accompany Jolliet.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/marq_joll.html (1049 words)

	Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Marquette is a French explorer and missionary who landed in the New World in 1666 and founded two missions.
		Jacques Marquette, a 35-year old Jesuit who liked geography, was selected to travel with Louis Jolliet.
		Marquette and the men reached St. Francis Xavier in the middle of October and the expedition was finally over.
	www.wadsworth.k12.oh.us /central/Explorers/Marquette.htm (502 words)

	Marquette_Joliet
		Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet were 2 explorers with very different backgrounds.
		Jacques Marquette (also known as Father Marquette) was born in Laon, France in 1637.
		Marquette and Joliet learned that the Mississippi flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, and that the Spanish had established settlements farther south.
	morgan.k12.il.us /jvsd117/hj.html (478 words)

	Office of Catholic Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Marquette was invited by Louis Joliet to translate Native American languages during Joliet’s journey down the Mississippi River.
		Pere Jacques Marquette was a Jesuit missionary born in France in 1636.
		Father Jacques Marquette was a famous scholarly Jesuit missionary from New France who took an exploration in 1673 down the Mississippi River.
	schools.archdiocese-chgo.org /news_releases/news_2003/news_111103.shtm (1142 words)

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