MARQUETTE  , a

city, a port of entry and the county seat of Marquette county, Michigan U.S.A., on the south shore of Lake Superior . Pop . (1900), 10,058 (3460 foreign-born) ; (1910) , 11,503 . It is served by the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, the Marquette & South-Eastern, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago & North-Western, and the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railways . The city, which is situated on a bluff roo ft. above the lake, in a region characterized by rounded hills and picturesque irregularities, has a delightful climate, and is a popular summer resort . Presque Isle park (400 acres), a headland north of the city, is one of its principal attractions . Marquette is the seat of the Northern State Normal School (established 1899) and of the state house of correction and branch prison (established 1885) . A county-court-house, the Peter White library, and the Federal building are the most prominent public buildings . Marquette is the seat of Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal bishoprics . The city is best known as a shipping centre of one of the richest iron-ore districts in the world, and its large and well-equipped ore docks are among its most prominent features . Marquette is the port of entry of the customs district of Superior . In 1896 its imports were valued at $358,505 and its exports at $4,708,302; in 1908, imports $1,845,724 and exports $7,040,473 .

Foundries, railway

machine-shops, lumber and planing-mills, brewery and bottling works, and quarries of brownish-red sandstone contribute largely to the city's economic importance . The charcoal iron blast-furnaces of the city manufacture pig-iron, and, as by-products, wood alcohol and acetic acid, recovered from the smoke of the charcoal pits . The value of the city's factory products increased from $1,585,083 in 1900 to $2,364,081 in 1905, or 49.1 % . The first settlement was made about 1845, and in 1849 it was named Worcester; but "Marquette" was soon substituted in honour of Jacques Marquette . It was incorporated as a village in 1859, and chartered as a city in 1871 .