Jacques Marquette S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French

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who founded

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's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, with

Louis Jolliet Louis Jolliet (September 21, 1645after May 1700) was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. In 1673, Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore an ...

, an explorer born near

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, was the first European to explore and map the northern portion of the

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Valley.

Early life

Jacques Marquette was born in

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, on June 1, 1637. He came of an ancient family distinguished for its civic and military services. Marquette joined the

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at age 17. He studied and taught in France for several years, then the Jesuits assigned him to

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in 1666 as a

to the

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. When he arrived in Quebec, he was assigned to

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on the

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, where he assisted

Gabriel Druillettes Gabriel Druillettes S.J. (also spelled Dreuillettes, Drouillettes, Drouillet, Droulletes, Drueillettes, Druilletes; 29 September 1610 – 8 April 1681) was a French Jesuit priest in New France who was an explorer, missionary to First Nations pe ...

and, as preliminary to further work, devoted himself to the study of the local languages and became fluent in six different dialects.Spalding, Henry. "Jacques Marquette, S.J." ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''
Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. February 15, 2019

Explorations

In 1668, Marquette was moved by his superiors to missions farther up the Saint Lawrence River in the western

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region. That year he helped Druillettes found the mission at Sault Ste. Marie in present-day Michigan. Other missions were founded at Saint Ignace in 1671 ( Mission Saint-Ignace) and at La Pointe on

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in present-day

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. At La Pointe, he encountered members of the

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tribes, who told him about the important trading route of the Mississippi River. They invited him to teach their people, whose settlements were mostly farther south. Because of wars between the

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at La Pointe and the neighboring Lakota people, Marquette left the mission and went to the

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; he informed his superiors about the rumored river and requested permission to explore it. Pere Marquette

Leave was granted, and in 1673 Marquette joined the expedition of Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer. They departed from Saint Ignace on May 17, with two canoes and five

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of French-Indian ancestry. They sailed to Green Bay and up the Fox River, nearly to its headwaters. From there, they were told to portage their canoes a distance of slightly less than two miles through marsh and oak plains to the

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. Many years later, at that point, the town of

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was built, named for the ancient path between the two rivers. They ventured forth from the portage, and on June 17, they entered the Mississippi near present-day

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. The Joliet-Marquette expedition traveled to within of the

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but turned back at the mouth of the

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. By this point, they had encountered several natives carrying European trinkets, and they feared an encounter with explorers or colonists from

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. They followed the Mississippi back to the mouth of the

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, which they learned from local natives provided a shorter route back to the Great Lakes. They reached Lake Michigan near the site of modern-day

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, by way of the

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. In September, Marquette stopped at Saint Francis Xavier mission in present-day

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, while Jolliet returned to Quebec to relate the news of their discoveries. 2009-0618-StIgnace-JacquesMarquetteGrave

Marquette and his party returned to the Illinois territory in late 1674, becoming the first Europeans to winter in what would become the city of Chicago. As welcomed guests of the

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, the explorers were feasted ''en route'' and fed ceremonial foods such as sagamite.

Death

In the spring of 1675, Marquette traveled westward and celebrated a public

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at the

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near

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. A bout of

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he had contracted during the Mississippi expedition sapped his health. On the return trip to Saint Ignace, he died at 37 years of age near the modern town of

Ludington, Michigan Ludington ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Mason County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,076. Ludington is a harbor town located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pere Marquette Rive ...

. After his death, natives from the

returned his bones to the chapel at Mission Saint-Ignace. A Michigan Historical Marker at this location reads: Adjacent to gravesite of Marquette on State Street in downtown Saint Ignace, a building was constructed that now houses the Museum of

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Culture. However, a Michigan Historical Marker in Frankfort, MI reads:

Legacy

Places

Marquette County, Michigan Marquette County ( ) is a county located in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 66,017. The county seat is Marquette. The county is named for Father Marquette, a Jesuit missionary. It w ...

;

Marquette County, Wisconsin Marquette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,592. Its county seat is Montello. The county was created in 1836 from the Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1848. Geography ...

* Several communities, including:

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;

Marquette, Wisconsin Marquette is a village in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 150 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Marquette. Marquette uses the postal code 53947. Geography Marquette is located at (43 ...

;

Marquette, Iowa Marquette is a city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 429 at the time of the 2020 census, up from 421 in 2000. The city, which is located on the Mississippi River, is named after Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, who ...

; Marquette, Illinois;

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; Pere Marquette Charter Township, Michigan; and

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Marquette University Marquette University () is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Henni, John Martin ...

and Marquette University High School in

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* Marquette Island in

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* Lake Marquette in

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;

Marquette Lake Marquette Lake is a freshwater body of the unorganized territory of Lac-Ashuapmushuan, Quebec in the Regional County Municipality (RCM) Le Domaine-du-Roy, north-west of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean administrative region, in province of Quebec, in Canad ...

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* Pere Marquette River and Pere Marquette Lake, which drain into

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Marquette River Marquette River is a tributary of Ashuapmushuan Lake, flowing into the unorganized territory of Lac-Ashuapmushuan, Quebec, into the Regional County Municipality (RCM) of Le Domaine-du-Roy, in the administrative region from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jea ...

; Pere Marquette River in

* Pere Marquette Park in

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Pere Marquette State Park Pere Marquette State Park is an protected area in southwestern Jersey County, Illinois, United States. It is located near the city of Grafton, Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Illinois River. The park is located on ...

near

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* Marquette Catholic High School, Alton, IL * Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois * Hotel Pere Marquette, Peoria, Illinois * Marquette Park, Gary, Indiana * Marquette Park, Mackinac Island, Michigan * Marquette Park, St. Louis, Missouri *

Pere Marquette Beach Pere Marquette Beach in Muskegon, Michigan is a park comprising of public beach on Lake Michigan. In 2004 the beach appeared on lists of certified clean beaches published by the National Healthy Beaches Campaign and the Clean Beaches Council. T ...

, a public beach in

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Pere Marquette State Forest The Pere Marquette State Forest encompasses lands in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, on the western side of the state. Counties within the Pere Marquette are: Leelanau, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Manistee, Wexford, Missaukee, ...

, in Michigan * The

Pere Marquette Railway The Pere Marquette Railway operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and southern parts of Ontario in Canada. It had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections in ...

* "Cité Marquette," former US-City-Base (1956–1966) built by Americans based on the NATO Air Force Base in Couvron ( 38th Bombardment Wing),

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(his birthplace). * Marquette Transportation Company, a

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company using a silhouette of the Pere in his canoe as their emblem. * Marquette Building in

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; Marquette Building in

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; Marquette Building in

Saint Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which ...

;

Pere Marquette Hotel The Peoria Marriott Pere Marquette, is a historic 14-story hotel in downtown Peoria, Illinois, United States. Built in 1926, the building is Peoria's only surviving example of an upscale 1920s hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Hist ...

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*Marquette Avenue, a large street in

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Monuments

Marquette is memorialized by various statues, monuments, and historical markers: *

Father Marquette National Memorial Father Marquette National Memorial pays tribute to the life and work of Jacques Marquette, French priest and explorer. The memorial is located in Straits State Park near St. Ignace in the modern-day U.S. state of Michigan, where he founded a Jes ...

near Saint Ignace, Michigan * Chicago Portage National Historic Site, along with Louis Jolliet, near

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* Statues have been erected to Marquette various locations, including at Detroit, Michigan; Fort Mackinac, Michigan; Marquette, Michigan; Milwaukee, at

; Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Utica, Illinois; Laon, France; the

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of the

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; the

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*The Legler Branch of the

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displays "Wilderness, Winter River Scene," a restored mural by Midwestern artist R. Fayerweather Babcock. The mural depicts Marquette and Native Americans trading by a river. Commissioned for Legler Branch in 1934, the mural was funded by the

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. Marquette has been honored twice on

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s issued by the United States: * A one-cent stamp in 1898, part of

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, which shows him on the Mississippi River; This is the first time a

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is honored by the U.S. Postal Department. * A 6-cent stamp issued September 20, 1968, marking the 300th anniversary of his establishment of the Jesuit mission at Sault Ste. Marie.Tessa Sabol.
Trans-Mississippi Exposition Commemorative Stamp Issue and National Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
" National Postal Museum. Accessed May 2, 2017.

Bibliography

Gallery

File:Marquette.jpg, Sketch of Marquette File:Marquette and jolliet map 1681.jpg, Ca. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition File:Stamp US 1898 1c Trans-Miss.jpg, "Marquette on the Mississippi", 1898 issue File:Marquette 1968 Issue-6c.jpg, "Marquette explorer", 1968 issue File:Marquette's Death - Michigan Historical Marker.jpg, Michigan Historical Marker: "Marquette's Death" File:Jacques Marquette Memorial in Laon France 2007-12-01.JPG, Memorial to Marquette in his birthplace of

File:Marquette NSHC.jpg, Gaetano Trentanove's Marquette statue at the

File:Jacques Marquette.jpg,

Alfred Laliberté Alfred Laliberté (19 May 1877 – 13 January 1953) was a French-Canadian sculptor and painter based in Montreal. His output includes more than 900 sculptures in bronze, marble, wood, and plaster. Many of his sculptures depict national figures ...

's Marquette sculpture at

File:JMMarquette.jpg, Statue of Marquette in

Detroit, Michigan Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...

File:Pere Marquette Mackinac 2007.jpg, Statue of Marquette at

Fort Mackinac Fort Mackinac ( ) is a former British and American military outpost garrisoned from the late 18th century to the late 19th century in the city of Mackinac Island, Michigan, on Mackinac Island. The British built the fort during the American Re ...

File:PereMarquetteMarquetteMI.jpg, Statue of Marquette in

File:FrMarquetteStatue.jpg, Statue of Marquette in

File:Marquette Winter Monument Chicago.JPG, Marker commemorating Marquette's wintering location in 1674–75, today in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

File:Pere Marquette Memorial - Utica, IL.jpg, Pere Marquette Memorial in Utica, Illinois File:22-16-118-marquette.jpg, Portrait of Marquette at the

National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is a museum located in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. The museum is a property of the Dubuque County Historical Society, which also operates the Mathias Ham Historic Site. The museum has two buildings on it ...

Notes

External links

''Iconographic sources of jesuit father Jacques Marquette fictitious portraits''
Web Robert Derome, Professeur honoraire d'histoire de l'art, Université du Québec à Montréal.
''The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791'', including Marquette's journal (Chapters CXXXVI – CXXXVIII)
* Thwaites, Reuben G.br>''Father Marquette''
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1902. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marquette, Jacques 1637 births 1675 deaths 17th-century French Jesuits Burials in Michigan Deaths from dysentery Explorers of Canada Explorers of the United States French explorers of North America French Roman Catholics People from Laon People of Louisiana (New France) People of New France Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)

Early life

Explorations

Death

Legacy

Places

Monuments

Bibliography

Gallery

See also

Notes

External links