Marquette
Marquette names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Marquette a city and county-seat of Marquette co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Marquette co., Mich., on Lake Superior and on the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic and the Munising, Marquette and Southeastern railroads; 53 miles E. S. E. of L'Anse. It has a beautiful harbor, with a 3,000 - foot breakwater finished in 1894 by the United States government. The city contains the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Peter, a United States government building, Northern State normal school, public high school, the Peter White Public Library, a branch of the State prison, the Upper Michigan Children's Home, waterworks, electric street railroads, National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Marquette has a celebrated brownstone quarry, iron and brick works, railroad machine shops, flour and lumber mills, several of the largest iron ore docks in the world, etc. In 1913 the city adopted the commission form of government. Pop. (1910) 11,503; (1920) 12,718. Publishers' Photo Service FORTRESS AND TOWN AT MADEIRA, WITH DATE PALMS IN THE FOREGROUND Enc. Vol. 6-p. 132 E. M. Newman MADRID, SPAIN. A VIEW OF THE GRAND VIA BRANCHING FROM CALLE ALCALA International Film Service OLD AND NEW METHODS OF TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS IN A MARKET PLACE OF MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Keystone View Company NEW ZEALAND MAORIS READY FOR A WAR DANCE IN FRONT OF THEIR CHIEF'S HOUSE © Underwood & Underwood Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE PYRAMID OF THE SUN, AZTEC PYRAMID AT SAN JUAN, TEOTIHUACAN எஎஏ 已包 Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE HALL OF MOSAICS IN THE RUINS AT MITLA THE WALLS ARE DECORATED WITH AZTEC CARVING Photo, Sumner W. Matteson AZTEC RUINS AT CRUSERO ON MT. GIRAN, NEAR MITLA, OAXACA Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE GREAT FEATHERED SERPENT, CARVED BY THE AZTECS
Marquette JACQUES (mar-ket')
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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 interesting account. He died wrote an near Marquette River, Mich., May 18, 1675.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 city entry describes a port of 12,718 people living off iron, brownstone and lumber; Marquette now has roughly 20,000 residents and its economy leans on Northern Michigan University — the "Northern State normal school" of the entry, renamed a university in 1963 — plus health care and tourism. Ore is still shipped, but from the Presque Isle dock; the old lower-harbor ore dock was retired in the 1970s and survives as a much-photographed landmark rather than a working one, while the brownstone quarries and the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic passenger trains are gone. The Marquette Branch Prison the entry lists as "a branch of the State prison" is still in operation. On Jacques Marquette the account stands, except that Collier's leaves out his companion on the 1673 Mississippi voyage, the trader Louis Jolliet, whom modern accounts always name alongside him, and places his 1675 death "near Marquette River, Mich." — the traditional site is the mouth of the Pere Marquette River at Ludington, though the exact spot has long been disputed.
Written for this edition, 2026.