First Father Marquette 350th anniversary speaker on May 21 in Westfield
The first in a series of speakers and events celebrating the 350th anniversary of the voyage of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet will be on Sunday, May 21, at 1 PM at the Marquette County Historical Society in Westfield. The event is free and is a collaboration of the Montello Historic Preservation Society and Marquette County Historical Society.
Dr. Patrick Jung will be presenting Jean Nicolet: Rethinking the 1634 Journey to Green Bay and American Indian History in Northeastern Wisconsin. Dr. Jung’s presentation about Jean Nicolet and his voyage in 1634 as well as the history of northeastern Wisconsin Indians sets the stage for the voyage of Father Marquette and Louis Joliet in 1673 and will help us understand what was happening between European fur traders, missionaries and Native people in the upper Great Lakes. This history of Wisconsin and the people and events connected to a network of trade and exploration along the Fox River was a vital part of development in what is now Marquette County.
Patrick J. Jung graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history. After graduation, he was commissioned as an infantry officer in the United States Army and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. During his four years in the army, he served for six months in Egypt on international peace-keeping duties. After serving in the army, he entered Marquette University where he earned his Master of Arts degree in United States history in 1992 and his doctoral degree in United States history in 1997. During that time, he worked for one year at the Milwaukee Public Museum from 1996 until 1997 as a Research Assistant on the Wisconsin Indian Resources Project.
After receiving his doctoral degree in 1997, Dr. Jung worked as an adjunct professor of history at Marquette University, Lakeland College, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Mount Senario College. He has worked since the fall of 2003 as a professor of history and cultural anthropology at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of The Black Hawk War of 1832 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), The Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 1832: Thunder on the Wisconsin (The History Press, 2011), and, along with late Dr. Nancy Lurie, Curator Emerita of the Milwaukee Public Museum, the co-author of The Nicolet Corrigenda: New France Revisited (Waveland Press, 2009). His most recent work is The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Understanding the 1634 Journey (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018).
In addition to his various books and articles on the history of Native societies in the western Great Lakes, he has written several works on German art history, particularly industrial art, including Erich Mercker: A Landscape and Industrial Artist in Twentieth-Century Germany (MSOE Press, 2014). He is currently planning future books on the War of 1812 in the upper Mississippi River valley and German industrial art from 1871 to 1945.
Please join us at the Marquette County Historical Society on Sunday, May 21 at 1PM to hear Dr. Patrick J. Jung present Jean Nicolet: Rethinking the 1634 Journey to Green Bay and American Indian History in Northeastern Wisconsin. The museum is located at 172 Lawrence Street. Mark your calendars for all the upcoming.
350th Anniversary of Father Marquette and Louis Joliet voyage on the Fox River Speaker Series 2023, Presented by the Marquette County Historical Society and the Montello Historic Preservation Society
• Jean Nicolet: Rethinking the 1634 Journey to Green Bay and American Indian History in Northeastern Wisconsin
Patrick Jung, May 21, 1PM, Westfield
• Voyage Re-enactors, June 10
• Native Americans, Black Robes, and Coureur des Bois: The Fox-Wisconsin Riverway in 1673, Ryan J. Howell, June 17, 1PM, Montello
• Dedication of Marquette Park on the Mont L’eau River in Montello, June 24
• Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, Mark Walczynski, August 26, 1PM, Montello
• The Surly Surveyor Rob Nurre, September 23, 1 PM, Westfield
