Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (born 1637)

Jacques Marquette

17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer in North America

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 Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec…