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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The county was set off in 1843, and organized in 1848. The county is named after the Ontonagon River. The name is said to be loosely derived from an Ojibwe language word noojitoon ziibi, meaning "hunting river." A French transliteration, Nantounagon, identified the river on a 1670 French map. Alternatively,...
The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla su...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Oakland County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was founded in 1819 and organized in 1820. It most likely gets its name from the oak trees found in this region by early settlers.The Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK) is the name given to the perpetrator(s) responsible for the serial killings of at least four children in Oakla...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Official Website History Kalamazoo is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. Originally known as Bronson (after founder Titus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the names of both the city and the township were changed to "Kalamazoo" in 1836 and 1837, respectively. The Kalamazoo name comes from a Po...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Official Website The county was authorized by legislation in 1822 and was organized as a county in 1826. The word Washtenaw is a variant of the Ojibwe word: "Wash-ten-ong," the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) name for the Grand River in Michigan. Adjacent Counties Livingston County Oakland County Wa...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Saginaw County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by September 10, 1822 and was fully organized on February 9, 1835. The etymology of the county's name is uncertain. It may be derived from Sace-nong or Sak-e-nong (English: Sauk land), as the Sauk (French: Sac) tribe is believed by some to have once lived there. A mo...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Allegan County, Michigan. Official Website Overview Allegan County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan . The county seat is Allegan. The name was coined by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft to sound like a Native American word. It is primarily an agricultural area that is rapidly becoming urbanized as the population centers of Grand ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iosco County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Kanotin County, and renamed Iosco County in 1843. A majority of the population used to be Chippewa Indians, the area offered shelter from tall white pines, and food from the river and lake. Iosco County was cut from a piece of land...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tuscola County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by Michigan Law on April 1, 1840. The name Tuscola was a neologism created by Henry Schoolcraft and had an aboriginal root. That source likely was the native Ojibwe name "desakamigaa" that means the flat level ground or simply the flat country. For an ending, Mr. Scho...
Please add profiles for those who were born in Shiawassee County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created in 1822 and was named for the Shiawassee River. Adjacent Counties Saginaw County Genesee County Livingston County Ingham County Clinton County Gratiot County For a complete list of Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia .
Riverside Cemetery - Kalamazoo - Michigan - USA
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Menominee County, Michigan.The county was created in 1861 under the name of Bleeker. When county government was organized in 1863, the name was changed to Menominee - an American Indian word meaning "wild rice eater" Adjacent Counties * Marquette County * Delta County * Door County, Wisc. * Dickinson County * Marinette County, Wisc. C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Delta County, Michigan. Official Website The county was surveyed in 1843 and organized in 1861. Its name originates from the Greek letter "delta", which refers to the triangular shape of the original county which included segments of Menominee, Dickinson, Iron, and Marquette counties. Adjacent Counties Alger County Schoolcr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Muskegon County, Michigan.= Official Website =Muskegon County was organized in 1859. Its name is from the Muskegon River, which runs through it and empties into Muskegon Lake and subsequently flows into Lake Michigan. The word "Muskegon" comes from the Ojibwa/Chippewa word mashkig, meaning "marsh" or "swamp". Adjacent Counties * Kent ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Clair County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created September 10, 1820. French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led an expedition to this area on August 12, 1679. These Roman Catholic men named the lake as Lac Sainte-Claire, because it was the feast day of Sainte Clare of Assisi, whom they venerated. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Charlevoix County, Michigan. Official Website History Between 1840 and 1841, surveyors William Austin Burt, John Mullett and Charles W. Cathcart, surveyed much of Northern Michigan. Cathcart oversaw the internal lines survey for 34N 08W, the region which would later be known as Charlevoix. Mullett and Cathcart laid out many of the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Macomb County, Michigan.= Official Website =The Ojibwe lived in the area for centuries before European contact, and were preceded by other cultures of ancient indigenous peoples.The first European explorers were French, and they arrived in the area during the 17th century. Other early settlers were French fur trappers, who sometimes m...
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers compete in the Central division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in 1894 as part of the Western League. They are the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the AL. The Tigers have won ...
Bristol Cemetery is located 1/2 mile West of Bristol on 8 Mile Rd in Bristol, Dover Township, Lake County, Michigan. It's also known as Dover Township Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dickinson County, Michigan. Official Website Dickinson is Michigan's newest county, formed in 1891 from parts of Marquette, Menominee, and Iron counties. It was named for Donald M. Dickinson, who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Grover Cleveland. Adjacent Counties Marquette County Menominee County Marinet...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Luce County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was set off and organized in 1887 and named after former Michigan Governor Cyrus G. Luce. Adjacent Counties & Provinces * Chippewa County * Province of Ontario * Mackinac County * Alger County * Schoolcraft County Villages, Townships & Communities *Betty B Landing*Carpenter Landing*...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Midland County, Michigan.= Official Website ==History=At the time of European contact, the land that would be Midland County, was occupied by the Chippewa Tribe. In the year of 1831, Midland County's borders had been set. In 1850, Midland County was officially organized. In 1890, Herbert Henry Dow arrived and founded the Dow Chemical ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for Col. William Crawford,[6] a Revolutionary War officer captured by Native Americans near Sandusky, Ohio and burned at the stake in 1792. Created by the Michigan Legislature as Shawono County in 1840, before being renamed in 1843 as Crawford County. "Shawono" was deri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Otsego County, Michigan. Official Website The county was founded in 1840 as Okkuddo County (meaning "sickly water," although the reason for using a name with such a negative meaning is lost). The name was changed to Otsego in 1843 and was organized in 1875. Otsego may be a Native American name meaning "place of the rock". However, a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Official Wesbite In 1840, the county was separated from Mackinac County and originally named Omeena County. It was organized by an act of the state legislature on April 7, 1851. Grand Traverse is derived from a French phrase meaning "long crossing" and the county is so named because it is situated at...