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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montmorency County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Cheonoquet County, after a well-known Chippewa (also known as Ojibwa) Chief, whose name meant Big Cloud. Cheonoquet took part in Indian treaties in 1807, 1815, 1825 and 1837. Renamed Montmorency County on March 8, 1843, it wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ann Arbor, Michigan . Official Website History In about 1774, the Potawatomi founded two villages in the area of what is now Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey . On May 25, 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as "Annarbour", the earliest known use of t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Joseph County, Michigan. Official Website The county was formed in 1829 and was named for the St. Joseph River. Adjacent Counties Kalamazoo County Calhoun County Branch County LaGrange County, Indiana Elkhart County, Indiana Cass County Van Buren County
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Manistee County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was set off in 1840 and organized in 1855. The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county. The derivation is not certain, but it may be from ministigweyaa, "river with islands at its mouth". Adjacent Counties * Grand Traverse Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alger County, Michigan. Alger County was organized in 1885. The county was named for lumber baron Russell Alexander Alger , who was elected as a Michigan Governor, and US Senator, and appointed as US Secretary of War during the William McKinley Presidential administration. There are six lighthouses in the county: Grand Island Ea...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Barry County, Michigan. Official Website History Before the present era, the Michigan peninsula was long occupied by bands of the Potowatomi and Ojibwe of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. The United States government forced the tribes to cede their extensive territories to the federal government, in exchange for annuit...
This cemetery is located on 401 East Southern Road, Kinderhook, Branch County, Michigan. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on County Road 614, Mio, Oscoda County, Michigan. It's also known as Elmer Township Cemetery #2 . Find a Grave Oscoda County Website - List of Burials
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Presque Isle County, Michigan. Official Website The county was authorized by state legislative action on April 1, 1840, but the county government was not established until 1871. The government was reorganized in 1875. Both the county and Presque Isle Township are named for Presque Isle (French, "almost an island"; the term for a na...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alcona County, Michigan. Official Website History The county was created by the state legislature on April 1, 1840. It was at first named Negwegon County, after the name of a well-known Chippewa chief, also known as "Little Wing". He was honored as having been an American ally against the British in the War of 1812 . It was renam...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alpena County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Anamickee County, then renamed in 1843 to Alpena County, a pseudo-Native American word — a neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft , meaning "a good partridge country." This was part of a much larger effort to rename a great many of...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montcalm County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was set off in 1831 and organized in 1850. The county is named for General Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, military commander of French troops during the French and Indian War. Adjacent Counties * Isabella County * Mecosta County * Newaygo County * Gratiot County * Ionia Count...
Goal and Scope of this Project=This project is a description of the city of Detroit, its history and people that made it famous.The story of Detroit--and this project--starts from the first recorded mention of the site in 1670, when French missionaries found a stone idol venerated by the Indians there and destroyed it with an axe. Detroit on the map today.=Toponymy===How to Input Locations in G...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Flint, Michigan. Flint is the county seat of Genesee County and lies on the Flint River. Official Website Overview Wikipedia The region was home to several Ojibwe tribes at the start of the 19th century, with a particularly significant community established near present-day Montrose. The Flint River had several convenient ford...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ionia County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for Ionia, a historic area of Greece. It was defined by act of the Territorial Legislature in 1831, and was organized in 1837. Adjacent Counties Gratiot County Clinton County Montcalm County Eaton County Barry County Kent County Cities, Villages & Tow...
The cemetery is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Walker Avenue NW and Richmond Street NW, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 628469 (Holy Cross Cemetery / Polish Catholic Cemetery ). Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 7101 Clyde Park Avenue SW, Byron Center, Kent County, Michigan. Judging from online reviews, this is a poorly-maintained cemetery. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The Tamarack, Osceola, Tamarack Junior & Kearsarge mines- The Tamarack Mining Company was incorporated in 1882 and is opened on the underlay of the Calumet conglomerate reef, (on a tract west of land held by Calumet and Hecla) and to some extent upon the Osceola amygdaloid as well, the latter being opened by means of crosscuts run east from the openings on the conglomerate. 5 shafts were sunk...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Berrien County, Michigan. Official Website History As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US President Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Mich...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kalkaska County, Michigan. Official Website The county was formed in 1840 and called Wabassee County until 1843. The county's current name is a pseudo-Native American word coined by Henry Schoolcraft, a Michigan geographer and ethnologist. The name is thought to be a Chippewa word meaning flat or burned-over country. Adjacent Cou...
This subportal is part of the State of Michigan Portal and the Education in the United States Portal . = Welcome to the Education in Michigan subportal! This subportal is part of the Education in the United States portal, which is in turn part of Geni's umbrella portal for all education-related projects. We hope this categorization makes things easier for you to find! If you have a pr...
Kalamazoo College is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1833 by Baptist ministers as the Michigan and Huron Institute, Kalamazoo is the oldest private college in the U.S. state of Michigan. From 1840 to 1850, the institute operated as the Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan. After receiving its charter from the state in 1855, the institute changed its n...
Arcadian, Concord, Franklin, Franklin Junior, Hancock, Rhode Island Mines The Arcadian Mine An underground copper mine consisting of seven shafts and two adits near Ripley. The original Arcadian Mining Company was organized in 1864, then reorganized as the Arcadian Copper Company in 1898 after the consolidation of the Edwards, Douglas, Concord, Highland, St. Mary's, and Arcadian mines. After ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Huron County, Michigan. Official Website Huron County was created by Michigan law on April 1, 1840, and was fully organized by an Act of Legislature on January 25, 1859. The name Huron was derived from the word "hures" as used in the phrase "În elles hures" (what heads) as applied by an astonished French traveler to the Wyandotte (...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Isabella County, Michigan. Official Website Isabella County was described by action of the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1831. The county name recognized Queen Isabella I of Castile, who with her husband Ferdinand commissioned Columbus's expedition in which he discovered the New World. The county's boundary contains the Isabel...