----- Original Message ----- From: "CR CORBEIL" <ETTLAFEET@msn.com> To: <MIHOUGHT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [MIHOUGHT] Red Jacket where did they get the name > This will tell you who Red Jacket was. My father told us the story about Red Jacket. > http://www.theoldwestwebride.com/txt7/redjacket.html > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John P. DuLong > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:46 PM > To: MIHOUGHT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [MIHOUGHT] Red Jacket where did they get the name > > According to Arthur W. Thurner's _Calumet Copper and People: History of a > Michigan Mining Community, 1864-1970_ (1974), p. 9: > > "Red Jacket was a famous Seneca orator, a dispatch carrier for the British > during the American Revolution, supplied by them with a dazzling red coat. > Blue Jacket, a Shawnee chief, led many a contingent in battle against > American settlers in Ohio in 1794. While the name yellow jacket identifies > certain wasps, its use at Calumet seems to have originated in an attempt to > find a name to conform with the others. ... Red Jacket retained its name > until 1929 when the village was officially renamed Calumet." > > Red Jacket, Blue Jacket, and Yellow Jacket all were merged into Calumet, > along with Tamarack, Newtown, Hecla, Calumet, Albion, and Raymbaultown, but > Red Jacket was the business center of Calumet. Laurium remained > independent. [Was Tamarack also independent? I know you have to > differentiate Tamarack from Tamarack Mills next to Hubbell.] > > I keep meaning to draw a map showing all the little hamlets and villages > that were merged into Calumet and post it on my web site, but I never seem > to have the time. Meanwhile, you can consult the map "Calumet and adjacent > areas" in Arthur W. Thurner's _Rebels on the Range: The Michigan Copper > Miners' Strike of 1913-1914_ (1984),p. 20. > > I hope this answers everyone's questions. > > JP > > John P. DuLong, Ph.D. > Acadian and French Canadian Genealogy > 959 Oxford Road > Berkley, MI 48072-2011 > USA > (248) 541-2894 > http://habitant.org > > > ==== MIHOUGHT Mailing List ==== > Houghton County Land Patents > ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/houghton/land/houghton.txt > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== MIHOUGHT Mailing List ==== > The Ross Collection > Copper Country Obituaries and Newspaper Transcripts > http://www.mfhn.com/rosscoll/rosscoll.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > THIS IS REALLY GREAT INFORMATION! THANKS!