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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 Marquette County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 from the Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1848 and was named in honor of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit explorer, who passed through this region in 1673. Adjacent Counties Green Lake County Columbia County Adams County Waushara C...
Discovered in 1844, First Production in 1846. The Marquette Iron Range was discovered in 1844 by a party of surveyors led by William A. Burt, who found that their sensitive magnetic compasses produced skewed results because of the concentration of iron in the land they were surveying. Mining began in 1847. At first, the hematite iron ore of the Marquette Range was smelted with local charcoal i...
Wikipedia =Northern Michigan University (NMU) is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. With enrollment of about 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest university. Notable Alumni
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mine Co. The Iron Cliffs Company established in 1865 by a group of New Yorkers including Samuel J. Tilden. They obtained property in Marquette County and opened their first mine, the Barnum Mine, in 1867. Two shaft, the "A" and "B" were sunk. The company obtained three more mine pits by 1870. In 1877, Iron Cliffs began exploratory drilling on this site overlooking Ish...
This project is for those who are buried in Park Cemetery, Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan. The cemetery is also known as Marquette Park Cemetery . Notable Burials Fred R. "Killer" Burke (1893-1940) - Gangster Carroll Watson Rankin (1864-1945) - Author George Shiras, III (1859-1942) - US Congress John Wesley Stone (1838-1922) - US Congress Links Find a Grave Michig...
There are four cemeteries in the village of Neshkoro, Marquette County, Wisconsin, that are located near each other along State Hwy 73 and tend to look like one large cemetery. The cemetery is located on the west side of Hwy 73 north of a line of mature trees. There is no cemetery sign. Earliest burials were in the mid-1850s. Find a Grave
Please add your ancestors who are buried in Montello Cemetery, Montello, Marquette County, Wisconsin. The cemetery is also known as Montello City Cemetery . Find a Grave
Early meeting minutes show that this cemetery was originally governed by a board of trustees of the East Side Cemetery Association, an organization probably formed in the mid-to-late 19th century. Later minutes show the name of the organization to be "Westfield Cemetery Association". Ownership and responsibility for maintenance of the cemetery passed to the Village of Westfield sometime after 1...
There are two cemeteries within a few miles of each other named Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery. This one is located at the intersection of 10th Rd. and 11th Rd. The cemetery is across the street from the little white church and is south and west of the other cemetery. Find a Grave Interment.net
Barnes-Hecker Mine=---Inundation>The Cleveland-Cliffs owned Barnes-Hecker iron mine was started in 1917 some five miles west of Ishpeming. By 1925 it was 1,067 feet deep and as safe as they made them. Upon opening a great quantity of water was encountered and mining had to be discontinued until mining operations drained most of the water from the ore stratum. >At 11:20 on the morning of Wednesd...
This project is for those who are buried in St. John Lutheran Cemetery, Budsin, Marquette County, Wisconsin. From I-39 in Westfield, go east 10.2 miles on CTH E to Hwy 22; or from Montello, go north 8.8 miles on Hwy 22 to CTH E. Cemetery is in northwest corner of intersection. This cemetery is owned and well maintained by St. John Lutheran Church of Budsin, WI. There are current burials. In...
This project is for those who are buried in Oxford Village Cemetery, Oxford, Marquette County, Wisconsin. The cemetery is also known as Oxford Cemetery . Find a Grave