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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...
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
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...
This cemetery is located on 4028 West State Road, Irving, Barry County, Michigan. Find a Grave
This Project is dedicated to the fatal accidents which happened at the Wolverine. Centennial/Schoolcraft, LaSalle/ Tecumseh, Old Colony / Mayflower Mines. The Wolverine Copper Company was organized in 1890, and its mine, operated at Kearsarge, Houghton County, being pronounced the profitable enterprise, considering the area covered by its properties, in the copper region. Its location embra...
This project is used to relate all units from Michigan which served in the Union Army during the US Civil War.>>— - - - - - - —===References===* Wikipedia's article about Michigan in the Civil War. * A bibliography concerning Michigan's participation in the Civil War. * photos of MI Civil War veterans >>— - - - - - - —
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Official Website The county boundaries were set off in 1840, with land partitioned from Mackinac County. The Cheboygan County government was organized in 1853. The name of the county shares the same origin as that of the Cheboygan River, although the precise meaning is no longer known. It may have come fr...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Mason County, Michigan.The county is named for Stevens T. Mason, Governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. It was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Notipekago County, then renamed Mason County in 1843. Adjacent Counties * Lake County * Manistee County * Manitowoc County, Wisc. * Sheboygan County, Wisc. * Newaygo County * ...
This cemetery is located 1421 South Pioneer Road, Homestead Township, Michigan. Find a Grave USGW Archives
The cemetery is operated by the Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services, a Ministry of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. The cemetery was started in 1928 and is situated on 350 acres. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 628490 (Holy Sepulchre Cemetery). The cemetery office limits a walk-up customer to 3 grave-site lookups...
Wikipedia Wayne State University (WSU) is an American public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District and Wayne State University Buildings Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 380 programs to nearly 28,000 graduate and undergraduate students. It is currently Michigan's th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bay County, Michigan . Official Website History Bay County was created in 1857. Its name references that it "surrounds Saginaw Bay." Being only sparsely populated at that time, Arenac County government was unorganized and was attached to Saginaw County for administrative purposes. There was considerable opposition to the creation ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Michigan. Official Website The county was set off in 1829 and organized in 1832. It is named for U.S. President Andrew Jackson and considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for members of Jackson's Cabinet. Adjacent Counties Ingham County Eaton County Calhoun County Hillsdale County ...
This cemetery is located on Bankers Road, Hillsdale Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan Find a Grave Billion Graves
Hillsdale College is a private, conservative, Christian liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan. It was founded in 1844 by members of the Free Will Baptists. Hillsdale's required core curriculum includes courses on the Great Books, the U.S. Constitution, biology, chemistry, and physics. Since the late 20th century, in order to opt out of the US government's Title IX nondiscrimination requi...