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Fort Saint Joseph was a fort established on land granted to the Jesuits by King Louis XIV; it was located on what is now the south side of the present-day town of Niles, Michigan. Père Claude-Jean Allouez established the Mission de Saint-Joseph in the 1680s. Allouez ministered to the local Native Americans, who were primarily Odawa and Ojibwe .
Saint Joseph, Milwaukee, a neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) in southwest Michigan and northwest Indiana; St. Joseph River (Maumee River) in south central Michigan and northeast Indiana; St. Joseph Valley Parkway, carrying parts of U.S. Routes 20 and 31; Churches. St. Joseph's Church (disambiguation ...
St. Joseph's Cathedral Basilica is a minor basilica in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The basilica, located west of downtown Edmonton is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton and is the second-largest church in Edmonton. St. Joseph, which seats about 1,100 people, [1] is the only minor basilica in Western Canada .
Patronage. Chiefs, politicians. Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe (1860 – 15 November 1885) was a Ugandan Catholic martyr and the majordomo at the court of Mwanga II of Buganda, recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. The Missionaries of Africa came to Uganda in 1879. Balikuddembe was enrolled as a catechumen in the following year and along ...
FIPS code. 26-29060 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1626287 [2] Florence Township is a civil township of St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,153 at the 2020 census. [3] It was organized in 1837. [4]
In 1909, the diocese purchased a building in Grand Rapids and opened Saint Joseph's Minor Seminary, educating high school- and college-age boys. The seminary proved a success, and a new four-story brick building was constructed in 1910 to house the program. The building was enlarged in 1913, but still proved too small to house all students.
Background. The Sturgis Dam was the first municipal water power plant built in Michigan. [1] It is currently named after the city who owns it and paid for its construction. The dam is about 17 miles (27 km) away from the city of Sturgis which owns and operates the plant. The citizens of Sturgis passed a bond for a cost of $190,000 (equivalent ...
On November 3, 1846, Joseph T. Copeland was elected St. Clair county judge and Z. W. Bunce second judge. Seemingly a one-man political machine, Copeland was made deputy collector and inspector of revenue for St. Clair County in 1848. In 1849 he became St. Clair's master of chancery and was also elected to the Michigan State Senate, serving one ...