Editing Marinette, Wisconsin (section)

==Name==
[[File:MarinetteWisconsinSign.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Welcome sign]]
The town and county were named ''Marinette'' after Marie Antoinette Chevalier (1793, [[Langlade County, Wisconsin]] – 1865, [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]]),<ref>Beatty, Michael A. 2001. ''County Name Origins of the United States.'' Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pg. 614.</ref><ref>Johnson, Beverly Hayward. 1995. ''Queen Marinette: Spirit of Survival on the Great Lakes Frontier.'' Amasa, MI: White Water Associates, p. 2.</ref><ref>Hintz, Martin. 2000. ''Wisconsin Portraits: 55 People who Made a Difference.'' Black Earth, WI: Trails Books, p. 10. (4th grade level)</ref> an influential [[Métis people|Métis]] woman who ran a trading post near the mouth of the Menominee River. Of [[Menominee]] and [[French Canadians|French Canadian]] ancestry, she came to be known as "Queen Marinette."<ref name="rootsweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wimarine/queen.html|title=Marinette County WIGenWeb – "Queen Marinette"|work=ancestry.com}}</ref> Her father was Bertrand Chevalier, a British trader of French Canadian ancestry, who was involved with an early trading post at Green Bay. Her mother was Lucy, the daughter of [[Menominee people|Menominee]] chief, ''Wauba-Shish'' (Great Marten).

Bertrand Chevalier brought his family, including Marie Antoinette, to Green Bay. There he took a young trading partner, John Jacobs, whom Marie Antoinette later married. They had three children together. In 1823 John and Marie Antoinette Jacobs settled in the village that became known as Marinette. Their son John B. Jacobs later plotted the town. Chevalier Jacob's husband disappeared during a trading trip. She later married his partner William Farnsworth of the [[American Fur Company]]. They also had three children together. Marie Antoinette Chevalier Farnsworth continued with the trading post after Farnsworth left the area for the next frontier at [[Sheboygan, Wisconsin|Sheboygan]]. She was known for her business sense, fairness, and influence in the region, as she had ties to both the Menominee and European communities. After her death, Chevalier was buried in [[Allouez, Wisconsin]]. In 1987 her descendants had Chevalier reinterred in a sarcophagus at the Forest Home Mausoleum in Marinette. Her original tombstone is on display at the museum on [[Stephenson Island (Wisconsin)|Stephenson Island]] in Marinette.<ref>[http://www.ehextra.com/main.asp?SectionID=12&SubSectionID=35&ArticleID=7404&TM=235.964 "Remembering a queen: New floral display graces Queen Marinette's tomb"], ''EH Extra''</ref>