Samuel C. Muir-- Part 1: From Scotland and At Fort Edwards

On May 7, I wrote about Samuel C. Muir, the Army surgeon at Fort Edwards and his Indian wife.  He was one of the early white settlers in Iowa.

From Lagenweb.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh and surgeon in the U.S. Army.  In 1820, he married an Indian girl of the Sac Nation and was stationed at Fort Edwards.

According to the account of Stephen Watts Kearny and Henry Schoolcraft who were on a military expedition in northern Iowa in 1820, they visited the Dubuque (Iowa) mines on the morning of August 5 and stopped their six-oared keelboat at the settlement of traders and met Muir, late of the U.S. Army and his squaw and two children.

He and his men were treated politely by Dr. Muir and the traders.

--Brock-Perry