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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...
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team formally joined the NFL on July 12, 1930 and be...
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 Genesee County, Michigan. Official Website Genesee County was created on March 28, 1835 and was named after Genesee County, New York. Adjacent Counties Lapeer County Livingston County Oakland County Saginaw County Shiawassee County Tuscola County Cities & Villages Burton Clio Davison
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 Keweenaw County, Michigan. Official Website The county was set off and organized in 1861. It is believed "Keweenaw" is a Native American word that means "portage or place where portage is made". Adjacent Provinces & Counties Alger County Marquette County Province of Ontario Cook County, Minnesota Ontonagon County Ho...
This project is a sub-project of the Lake Superior Mine Fatalities, For the county of Keweenaw, Michigan. The Ahmeek Mine The Ahmeek Mining Company was organized in 1880 as an exploration wing of the Seneca Mining Co. to work the Kearsarge Conglomerate lode. The original operations consisted of two shallow shafts, but production was irregular. In 1903, with the discovery of the Kearsarge Amyg...
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...
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. ...
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 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
This is a project for Finnish-born immigrants and for their descendants in Michigan, USA. Brief history of Finns in Michigan Finns first arrived in Michigan ’s Upper Peninsula after the Civil War, when a copper mining company recruited them from mines in Norway because of their reputation as hard workers. The Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns during the peak years of migratio...
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 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 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 Count...
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,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gogebic County, Michigan. Official Website This was historically part of the territory of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, which had twelve bands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation is in this county, in Watersmeet Township; it is the land base of one of the federally recognized tribes. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Michigan. Official Website Before the county's formation, the primary settlement was Frenchtown, which was settled in as early as 1784 along the banks of the River Raisin. The small plot of land was given to the early French settlers by the Potawatomi Native Americans, and the area was claimed for New France. The sett...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hillsdale County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for its rolling terrain. It was described by action of the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1829, and was organized six years later. Adjacent Counties Calhoun County Jackson County Branch County Steuben County, Indiana Fulton County, Ohio Lenawee County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lenawee County, Michigan. Official Website The county organization was created in 1826. The county's name is a Henry Schoolcraft neologism, thought to be derived from a Native American word meaning "male"—from the Delaware "leno or lenno" or the Shawnee "lenawai." Adjacent Counties Jackson County Hillsdale County Fulton Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schoolcraft County, Michigan. The county was founded in 1843 and organized in 1876. It is named in honor of Henry Schoolcraft, who explored the area with the expedition of Lewis Cass. Adjacent Counties Luce County Mackinac County Alger County Delta County Leelanau County Cities. Townships, Communities & Reservation...
This is for profiles created as part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project (LHP), 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. Those wanting to join this project should be member...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in the State of Michigan.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ottawa County, Michigan. Official Website The county was set off in 1831 and organized in 1837. It is named for The Ottawa Nation. Adjacent Counties Muskegon County Kent County Allegan County Racine County, Wisconsin Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Cities & Villages Coopersville Ferrysburg Grand Haven (County Seat...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Allegan County, Michigan. Official Website 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 Rapids on t...