Marquette
JACQUES (mar-ket'), a French missionary and explorer, born in Laon, France, in 1637. He became a Jesuit priest in 1666 and went to Canada as a missionary. In 1673-1674 he made an extensive missionary journey through the Lake Superior and Green Bay region, traveling, exploring, and preaching, being in this way one of the early voyagers down the Mississippi river, of which he wrote an interesting account. He died near Marquette River, Mich., May 18, 1675.