MARQUETTE 



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MARRIAGE 



the Spaniards, they returned by way of the 

 Illinois River, having spent four months on the 

 j ourney . 



Marquette's health was very poor, and on an 

 expedition which he undertook, the next year, 

 to found a mis- 

 sion among the 

 Illinois Indians, 

 he grew steadily 

 worse. On the 

 return journey he 

 died, near the 

 present site of 

 Ludington, Mich. 

 Several places 



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MARQUETTE 

 Illustration is from a statue 

 in Washington, D. C. 



claim the distinc- 

 tion of being his 

 burial place, but 

 beyond doubt his 

 remains lie at 

 Saint Ignace, Mich., across the Strait of Macki- 

 nac to the west of Mackinac Island. Mar- 

 quette's influence on the Indians was deep and 

 lasting. 



Consult Thwaites' Father Marquette; Finley's 

 French in the Heart of America. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 



Hennepin, Louis 

 Illinois (Indians) 

 Jesuits 



Joliet, Louis 



La Salle, Sieur de 



MARQUETTE, MICH., the county seat of 

 Marquette County, and a shipping point for an 

 important mining region, centrally located on 

 the north shore of the Upper Peninsula, 372 

 miles by rail, 500 miles by water, north of Chi- 

 cago. The city is situated on Iron Bay, an 

 inlet of Lake Superior, and has a good harbor 

 protected by two breakwaters, constructed by 

 the Federal government at a cost of $2,000,000. 

 A number of boats sail regularly between this 

 and other lake ports, and the Duluth, South 

 Shore & Atlantic and the Munising, Marquette 

 & Southeastern railroads enter the city. The 

 population in 1910 was 11,503; in 1916 it was 

 12,409 (Federal estimate). Swedish, Germans 

 and Finnish predominate among those of for- 

 eign descent. The area of the city is ten square 

 miles. 



Marquette is a favorite^ summer resort, and 

 is noted for beautiful scenery and excellent cli- 

 mate. It is the seat of the Northern State 

 Normal School, and has a Federal building 

 erected in 1893 at a cost of $100,000, a city hall, 

 a courthouse, the Peter White Public Library, 

 three cathedrals, Saint Mary and Saint Luke 



hospitals, Roman Catholic orphanage, the State 

 House of Correction and the upper peninsula 

 branch of the state prison. One of the city's 

 most attractive features is Presque Isle Park, 

 a wooded section on a headland which was the 

 gift of the Federal government. 



Marquette has some of the largest ore docks 

 in the world, and is the shipping port for the 

 rich Marquette iron range. Coal is brought to 

 the city as ballast in the returning ore boats. 

 Among the most valuable resources of the lo- 

 cality are great tracts of pine timber and quar- 

 ries yielding trap-rock, a very hard paving 

 stone. The industrial establishments include 

 blast furnaces, chemical works, iron works, 

 foundries, machine shops, lumber and wood- 

 working mills, and a wood-alcohol plant. Mar- 

 quette was settled in 1845 and named in honor 

 of Father Marquette. The commission form of 

 government was adopted in 1914. 



MARQUIS, mahr'kwis, a degree of nobility 

 in the British peerage. Only a duke, among 

 the peers, ranks higher than a marquis, an earl 

 and baron holding lower rank. The name, 

 which comes from the Latin through the 

 French, is related to the term mark, signifying 

 a frontier or outlying district; and the first 

 marquis, on the Continent, though not in Eng- 

 land, was the prefect of a frontier region. The 

 title has now lost all such geographic signifi- 

 cance. 



MARRIAGE, mair'ij, the term which defines 

 the social and legal relation of a man and 

 woman who are joined in wedlock; the word 

 also names the ceremony that joins them. The 

 marriage relation is peculiar in that while two 

 parties may by mutual agreement enter into 

 it, once having done so the rights, duties and 

 obligations are supposed to be continued unin- 

 terruptedly during the lives of the two. 



Who May Marry. In the United States 

 there are no uniform marriage laws, but the 

 degree of relation within which parties may not 

 marry is clearly defined by civil and canonical 

 law. In England the table of consanguinity 

 (blood relationship) has been drawn up by the 

 Established Church and is printed in every 

 prayer book for use in the services of the 

 church. It is a disputed point, however, as to 

 whether this generally accepted table of con- 

 sanguinity is in reality legal or only obeyed 

 because it has become customary. Apart from 

 prevention through consanguinity, some state 

 laws allow females of twelve and males of four- 

 teen to marry, other states denying the right of 

 marriage to females below the age of eighteen 



