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Jacques Marquette, S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace.
- Pere Marquette
- May 18, 1675 (aged 37), near Ludington, Michigan
May 14, 2024 · Jacques Marquette (born June 1, 1637, Laon, Fr.—died May 18, 1675, Ludington, Mich.) was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who, with Louis Jolliet, travelled down the Mississippi River and reported the first accurate data on its course.
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Aug 2, 2023 · French missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette is best known as the first European to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.
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May 23, 2018 · Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was a French Jesuit, missionary, and explorer who followed the Illinois and Mississippi rivers on a journey of discovery. Jacques Marquette was the son of a seigneur of Laon.
Jan 7, 2008 · Jacques Marquette, Jesuit priest, missionary, explorer (b at Laon, France 10 June 1637; d at the mouth of a river later called the Père Marquette R, Mich 18 May 1675). Contemporaries regarded Marquette as a gifted linguist who founded the St-Ignace Mission and opened the Illinois country to missionaries.
Jacques Marquette was born June 10, 1637 in Laon, in the old French province of Aisne. He was 17 years old when he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Nancy, where it was not long before he had decided what he wanted to do with his life: “Would that I be ordered to set out for foreign lands.
Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was a Jesuit missionary best known for exploring the upper Mississippi River with Louis Jolliet. Born in Laon, France, Marquette became a member of the Society of Jesus at the age of seventeen. He was assigned to the missionary outpost of Quebec in 1666.
