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== Notable people == {{div col}} * [[John Penn Arndt]], merchant, member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. * [[William Beaumont]], a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion. * [[Agatha Biddle]], Métis fur trader (specifically Odawa & French), and community leader.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/mackinac-island-finally-telling-native-side-of-history-5UI0AK2BCEm4JEcvJu8ppA/|title=Mackinac Island Finally Telling Native Side of History - IndianCountryToday.com|work=IndianCountryToday.com|access-date=2018-10-09|language=en-US}}</ref> * Sophie Biddle, Métis fur trader, and community leader. Daughter of [[Agatha Biddle]].<ref name="Métis Women of Mackinac">{{cite web |title=Métis Women of Mackinac |url=https://www.mackinacparks.com/metis-women-of-mackinac/ |website=Mackinac State Historic Parks|date=April 22, 2016 }}</ref> * [[Gerald F. Bogan]], Senior admiral during WWII and Navy Cross recipient. * [[Michael Cudahy (meat packing)|Michael Cudahy]], meatpacking CEO and land developer. * [[Peter Warren Dease]], fur trader and Arctic explorer. Married into the Métis fur trade via his wife, Elizabeth Chouinard. * [[Hercules L. Dousman]], fur trader and real estate financier, son of Michael Dousman. * [[Michael Dousman]], fur trader and sawmill owner. Acquired the plot of farmland that was eventually developed into what is now the [[Wawashkamo Golf Club]] * [[Frank Dufina]], early [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] golf professional. Born on Mackinac Island and pro at [[Wawashkamo Golf Club]]. Was a descendant of the original Mishinimakinago and innumerated as a member of the Mackinac Island Band of Indians on the Durant Indian Rolls. * [[Thomas W. Ferry]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from Michigan in 1865–1871, and of the [[United States Senate]] from Michigan in 1871–1883, was born on the island. * [[William Montague Ferry]], Presbyterian minister and missionary established a mission on the island. * [[William Montague Ferry Jr.]], Michigan and Utah politician, was born on the island. * [[Porter Hanks]], Artillery lieutenant in command of Fort Mackinac who surrendered the island to the British in July 1812.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/essays/prisoners-war/|title=Prisoners of War - War of 1812 - PBS|website=[[PBS]]|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-date=September 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902160849/http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/essays/prisoners-war/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_mackinac_island_1812.html|title=Battle of Mackinac Island, 17 July 1812|website=www.historyofwar.org}}</ref> * [[Jane Briggs Hart]], aviator and wife of Senator Philip Hart. * [[Philip Hart]], member of the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1959–1976. Buried at St. Anne's Catholic Cemetery. * [[Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard]], fur trader and pioneer Chicago CEO. * [[Madeline La Framboise]], Métis fur trader and businesswoman, inducted in 1984 into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]]. * [[Jacques Marquette]], Jesuit priest and missionary. * [[John McCabe (writer)|John McCabe]], Shakespeare teacher, film historian, and biographer. * [[Henry Rowe Schoolcraft]], noted [[ethnographer]] and U.S. Indian agent, named many counties and places in Michigan in his official capacity; husband of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. * [[Jane Johnston Schoolcraft]], ethnographer, translator, [[folklorist]], and [[poet]] of mixed Ojibwa & Scots-Irish parentage; inducted in 2008 into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. * Elizabeth Mitchell, Métis businesswoman.<ref name="Métis Women of Mackinac"/> * [[Alexis St. Martin]], French fur trapper, and patient for William Beaumont's research. *[[Elizabeth Whitney Williams]], lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes from 1872 to 1913 * [[G. Mennen Williams]], governor of Michigan in 1949–1961. In fact, the state owns a residence on the island for the current governor's use; some governors use it extensively, while others have used it only for special occasions. <!-- * [[Pearl Louella Kendrick]], was an American bacteriologist known for co-developing the first vaccine for whooping cough. -- no source, no any connection to the island found by web search --> {{div col end}} {{Clear}}
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