Jacques Marquette
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Jacques Marquette, 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 Ig
1869 portrait of Marquette
![Pere Marquette and the Indians [at the Mississippi River], oil painting (1869) by Wilhelm Lamprecht (1838–1906), at Marquette University](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Pere_Marquette.JPG/500px-Pere_Marquette.JPG)
Pere Marquette and the Indians [at the Mississippi River], oil painting (1869) by Wilhelm Lamprecht (1838–1906), at Marquette University
Grave of Jacques Marquette in Saint Ignace, Michigan
Sketch of Marquette
Marquette University
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Marquette University is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was established as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, by John Henni, the first Archbishop of
Jacques Marquette
…residents of St. Ignace, some of them descendants of those led by Marquette to the mission, became aware that an ounce of Marquette's bones was located at Marquette University. Talks between the residents and the university began. The Museum of Ojibwe Culture sent a formal request for the return of the bones. This request was…
Marquette University seal
Johnston Hall, the oldest academic building at Marquette
John P. Raynor Library