ISHPEMING

ishpeming, a city of marquette county, michigan, u.s.a., about 15 m. w. by s. of marquette, in the n. part of the upper peninsula. pop. (1890) 11,197; (1900) 13,255, of whom 5970 were foreign-born; (1904) 11,623; (1910) 12,448. it is served by the chicago & north western, the duluth, south shore & atlantic, and the lake superior and ishpeming railways. the city is 1400 ft. above sea-level (whence its name, from an ojibway indian word, said to mean "high up"), in the centre of the marquette range iron district, and has seven mines within its limits; the mining of iron ore is its principal industry. ishpeming was settled about 1854, and was incorporated as a city in 1873.