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This project is for those buried in Clarence Center Cemetery, Clarence Center, Calhoun County, Michigan. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Michigan. Official Website Wayne County was the sixth county in the Northwest Territory, formed August 15, 1796 from portions of territorial Hamilton County, territorial Knox County and unorganized territory. It was named for the U.S. general "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Adjacent Counties & Provinces Washtenaw County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gratiot County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county is named for Captain Charles Gratiot, who supervised the building of Port Huron's Fort Gratiot. The original founders of Ithaca and of Alma were settlers from New England, "Yankees", descended from the English Puritans who settled the northeastern coast of the new continent in th...
This is for profiles created as part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project, a group on Facebook.The goal of the Lithuanian Heritage Project is to work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that enables Lithuanians globally to connect with their Lithuanian family members.For more information on the project, please contact Ann Marie...
This cemetery is located on South Adrian Highway (Michigan 52), Fairfield, Lenawee County, Michigan. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Houghton County, Michigan.= Official Website =Both the county and the city were named for Michigan State geologist and Detroit Mayor Douglass Houghton. It was part of Copper Country during the mining boom of the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. Adjacent Counties * Baraga County * Iron County * Ke...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.= Official Website =Kalamazoo County was organized in 1830, although its set off date is unknown. The name purportedly means "the mirage or reflecting river" and the original Indian name was "Kikalamazoo". Adjacent Counties * Barry County * Calhoun County * Branch County * St. Joseph County * Allegan County ...
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 Pot...
Riverside Cemetery - Kalamazoo - Michigan - USA
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 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...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kent County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was set off in 1831, and organized in 1836. It was named for New York jurist and legal scholar James Kent, who represented the Michigan Territory in its dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip. Adjacent Counties * Ionia County * Montcalm County * Allegan County * Ottawa County * Bar...
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 Schoolc...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clinton County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created in 1831 and organized in 1839. It is named after early American politician DeWitt Clinton. Adjacent Counties Saginaw County Gratiot County Montcalm County Shiawassee County Ionia County Ingham County Eaton County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marquette County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county is named for Father Marquette, a Jesuit missionary. It was set off in 1843 and organized in 1851. Adjacent Counties * Alger County * Delta County * Menominee County * Dickinson County * Iron County * Houghton County * Baraga County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ingham County, Michigan.= Official Website =Ingham County was established by an act of the Michigan Territorial Legislature on October 29, 1829 and was named for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Counties * Eaton County * Clinton County * Shiawassee County * Jackson 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 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 * Lenaw...
History of the Copper Range Consolidated Company- The Copper Range Company (1899-1977) operated copper mines in Houghton County's South Range and in Ontonagon County. The second largest mining company in the Copper Country (after Calumet & Hecla), the Copper Range Company was the only one to survive the 1960s. In addition to mining, it owned and operated the Copper Range Railroad (1899-1973) a...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Calhoun County, Michigan. Official Website The county was established on October 19, 1829 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under Andrew Jackson, making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was first organized on March 6, 1833. Adjacent Counties Eaton County Barry Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Emmet County, Michigan. Official Website History Ottawa history records that Emmet County was thickly populated by indigenous peoples called the Mush-co-desh, which means "the prairie tribe". They had an agrarian society and were said to have "shaped the land by making the woodland into prairie as they abandoned their old worn o...
University of Michigan The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, UMich, or U of M), frequently referred to as simply Michigan, is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. It is the state's oldest university and has two satellite campuses located in Flint and Dearborn. The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigani...
The Quincy Mine was founded in 1846 by the merger of the Northwest Mining Company and the Portage Mining Company. Due to poor communication between government offices, these two speculative mining companies had purchased the same tracts of land during the mining rush of the early 1840's. The directors met and decided to merge, with significant investment coming from Massachusetts (the town of Q...
The Lake Superior Mine Fatalities (This project is intended to hold profiles of all the mining deaths that occurred in the Lake Superior District.) The Lake Mines 3 districts are: Portage Lake District Keweenaw Point District Ontonagon District Including now the Marquette Iron Range Mines . The underground copper mines were a treacherous place, where danger lurked at every turn. ...