The settlement saw some growth, but when the Chicago, Saginaw and Canada Railroad ( which became part of the Pere Marquette Railway and then the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ) was built and a station was established nearer to the Flat River, Sumner subsequently sold his holdings and moved to Edmore.

McGuire's Marquette team, led by Butch Lee and Jerome Whitehead, defeated Dean Smith's North Carolina Tar Heels for the title, just two days after Whitehead received a full court pass then subsequently made a last second shot ( exactly the same style of shot made by Duke's Christian Laettner against Kentucky fifteen years later ) propelling Marquette past UNC Charlotte in the national semifinals.

The tiny village that began to form up around the saw-mills and crude buildings became known as the Village of Pere Marquette.

Upon journey ’ s end, Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.

With three summer associations ( the Belvedere Club, Sequanota Club, and the Chicago Club ), a number of extravagant summer hotels, including The Inn and The Beach, and with rail service at two train depots on the Pere Marquette Railway line, ( one depot for the Belvedere Club on the south side of Round Lake and one on the north side near the Chicago Club ), Charlevoix became known as one of the nation's finest summer communities.

Barnett became the first postmaster of Branch, in Mason County, on February 1, 1876, named for the township, which in turn is named for the north branch of the Pere Marquette River.

It became a station on the Pere Marquette Railway in 1901.

In 1925, U. S. 12 in Michigan was originally proposed to run from Detroit to Ludington, across Lake Michigan, via the Pere Marquette Railway car ferry to Manitowoc, Wisconsin and then continuing into Wisconsin, on what later became US-10, in those two states.

David Marquette Kopay ( born June 28, 1942 ) is a former American football running back in the National Football League who in 1975 became one of the first professional athletes to come out as gay.

He did pastoral work in Manistique but soon thereafter became secretary to Bishop Noa of Marquette, whom he accompanied to the first session of the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

In 1673, Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette and French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet became the first Europeans known to have descended the Mississippi River.

During his time at Marquette University, he met and became friends with the literary magazine editor, Joanne Ryder.

After he graduated from Marquette, he became a real estate agent.

First explored in 1673 by the expedition of Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette, the area was soon claimed by France and became part of Louisiana, together with Lower Louisiana.

Marquette College officially became a university in 1907.

Marquette University High School, formerly the preparatory department of the university, became a separate institution the same year.

Initially an all-male institution, Marquette University became the first coed Catholic university in the world, when it admitted its first female students in 1909.

At the close of 1998 GE Medical acquired the Nuclear and MR businesses of Elscint, ( then a division of Elron, based in Haifa, Israel ), the CT business being bought by Picker, and in the same year Marquette Medical Systems became a wholly owned subsidiary of GE Medical.

He became the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette, Michigan, originally sited at Sault Sainte Marie, which he led for 15 years.

According to a 1956 newspaper profile, he became involved in the theater program at Marquette after encouragement by a university professor Father John J. Walsh.

Marquette, Michigan became a major shipping port after iron ore was discovered in the area in 1844, and marine traffic in the area has been heavy ever since.

She later attended Marquette University and became a single mother and was for a while a welfare recipient.

In 1901 he was appointed as head of French and German at the recently founded Marquette Northern State Normal School ( now Northern Michigan University ), where he later became a teacher.

The following year he was assigned to what became a two-year project supervising a Wright-designed house in Marquette for MaryBud's mother.

McGuire later became head coach at Marquette University in 1964 where he enjoyed success, including the NIT Championship in 1970 and a Final Four appearance in 1974, where McGuire became the first coach ejected from a championship game.

During June, Memphis is home to the Memphis Italian Festival at Marquette Park.

Marquette is a town that is offering parcels of residential land for free on the condition that the recipient build a home within a specified deadline.

The Bear Lake area is the home to various business and industry ; primarily agriculture focusing on fruit production, and tourism due to the lake and the adjacent Manistee National Forest and Pere Marquette State Forest.

Marquette Township is home to one of the most diverse shopping centers in the Upper Peninsula.

Marquette Township is home to the U. P.

In the 2006-07 season the Badgers had victories at Marquette and at home against 2nd ranked Pittsburgh.

However, as late as 1970, Coach Al McGuire of Marquette, the 8th-ranked team in the final AP poll of the season, spurned an NCAA bid in protest of his team's placement in the Midwest Region, where his team would have to play games farther away from home than it would if it were in the Mideast Region.

One of the most widely-recognized buildings on campus, Marquette Hall was the home to several offices, including Undergraduate Admissions until they moved to their new location in the newly completed Zilber Hall.

* The Al McGuire Center, named for the legendary Marquette basketball coach, was opened in 2004 and is home to the women's volleyball and basketball teams and serves as the practice facility and administrative offices for the men's basketball team.

It is home to the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, the Marquette University men's basketball team, the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL ( and formerly of the IHL ) and the Milwaukee Mustangs of the AFL.

The National Football League's Green Bay Packers played two or three home games per year at Milwaukee County Stadium from 1953 to 1994, after using Wisconsin State Fair Park in nearby West Allis and also Marquette Stadium.

The venue was also home to Marquette University's men's basketball team along with the International Hockey League Milwaukee Admirals.

After seven years, Thomas R. " Tommy " Callahan III ( Chris Farley ) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns home to Sandusky, Ohio.

The Salmon Trout River in the Huron Mountains of Marquette County is home to the endangered " coaster " brook trout.

The former bus station in downtown Marquette is home of the Michigan State Police Crime Lab and soon to be home of the Marquette County Historical Society Museum.

This previous designation contained the section of highway in Marquette County that is home to the first painted highway centerline in the nation.

The Lautners were keenly interested in art and architecture and in May 1918 their Marquette home " Keepsake ", designed by Joy Wheeler Dow, was featured in the magazine The American Architect.

The team played its home games at Marquette Stadium.

Four straight defeats at the beginning of the season set the level for the rest of the season ; somewhat shockingly, Yakima's home form was quite atrocious, and they failed to pick up a win at Marquette Stadium until the end of June with a 4-2 victory over Spokane Shadow.

KDTU was home for Notre Dame, Marquette and DePaul college basketball broadcasts, a reflection of their ownership by the Roman Catholic Diocese.

As her health declined in the 1990s, Mary gradually relinquished her roles within the family business to her daughter and grandchildren and finally moved from the family's longtime Terre Haute home to Marquette Manor Retirement Community in Indianapolis where she could receive the health care that she needed.