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Marquette

noun

French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675). Synonyms: Jacques Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette.

A town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan.

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"Marquette" Quotes from Famous Books

... year ago last summer, 15-year old Margaret Smith was working about her simple home near Benton Harbor, Michigan. The father, employed by the Pere Marquette Railroad, was away from home a good share of the time. One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family became interested in one of his musical machines. Shortly afterward this agent brought with him to the Smith home Frank ...

— Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls • Jean Turner-Zimmermann

... iconoclast would rend the sensitive ear with such barbarities as the Loss Angglees of to-day for the deep-vowelled Los Angeles of the last century? Who but a Yankee would swap the murky "Purgatoire" for Picketwire, and make Zumbro River of the Riviere des Ombres of brave old Pere Marquette? And so, too, it goes through all the broad Northwest. Indian names, beautiful in themselves even though at times untranslatable, are tossed contemptuously aside to be replaced by the homeliest of every-day appellations, until the modern geography of Wyoming, Dakota, Montana, and Idaho ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... early stream of immigration took its way down the Ohio River to the Mississippi. There it met the outposts of French power, for the French burst open that great river, following their missionaries, Marquette and Joliet, down from its headwaters in Wisconsin, or pressing up from their early settlements at New Orleans. Doubtless, if it had not been that the Mississippi afforded the most practicable, and the most useful highway from north to south, the young American people would have ...

— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot

Words linked to "Marquette" : Jacques Marquette, mi, Wolverine State, missioner, town, Michigan, Great Lakes State, missionary