Samuel C. Muir-- :Part 3: Some Facts About Him

Other sources on Muir:

**  Muir helped lay out the City of Keokuk and named most of the main streets.

**  One of the early pioneers of Iowa.

**  While at Fort Edwards at Warsaw, Illinois in 1820, he crossed the Mississippi River to where Keokuk is today and married "a beautiful and intelligent Indian girl of the Sac nation."

**  In 1820, Dr. Samuel C. Muir built the first house in what is today Keokuk near Main and Water Street.  In 1839 the house was bought by C.B. Fleck.

**  Keokuk was named for Chief Keokuck, Chief of the Sac and Fox Indians.  In 1883, his bones were dug up from Franklin County, Kansas, and brought to Keokuk.  He was reburied in Rand Park under a massive stone.

--Brock-Perry