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Marquette, Jacques
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Marquette, Jacques (1637–1675)

French Jesuit missionary and explorer. He went to Canada 1666, explored the upper lakes of the St Lawrence River, and in 1673 with Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), set out on a voyage down the Mississippi on which they made the first accurate record of its course.

In 1674 he and two companions camped near the site of present-day Chicago, making them the first Europeans to live there.



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