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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 & Townships Be...
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 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 annu...
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 for those who were born, lived or died in Allegan County, Michigan. Official Website Overview 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 Gran...
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, Wisc. Milwaukee County, Wisc. Cities & Villages Coopersville Ferrysburg Grand Haven (County Seat)...
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 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 Grand Traverse County, Michigan.In 1840, the county was separated from Mackinac County and originally named Omeena County. It was organized by an act of the state legislature on April 7, 1851. Grand Traverse is derived from a French phrase meaning "long crossing" and the county is so named because it is situated at the Grand Traverse ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Newaygo County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was created in 1840, and was organized in 1851. It was either named for an Ojibwe leader who signed the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819 or for an Algonquian word meaning "much water". Adjacent Counties * Mason County * Lake County * Osceola County * Oceana County * Mecosta County * Mon...
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 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 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 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 creatio...
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...
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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*Fenton (part)* Flint (County Seat)
Wikipedia =Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is 35 miles (56 km) west of Detroit and eight miles (13 km) east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Today, the university is governed by an eight-member Board of Regents, who are appointed by the Governor of Mi...
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...
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 Mi...
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 Monroe County, Michigan.= Official Website = History 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....
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 County...
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, Ind. * Fulton County, Ohio * Lenawee County * W...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Branch County, Michigan. Official Website History As one of the "cabinet counties" it was named for the U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Branch under President Andrew Jackson. Branch County was a New England settlement. The original founders of Coldwater were settlers from the northern coastal colonies – "Yankees", descended fro...