The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Keokuk, Moses

KEOKUK, Moses, an American Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, after whom the city of Keokuk, Iowa, was named: b. 1818; d. near Kansas City, Mo., October 1903. Probably the best description of Keokuk's boyhood is contained in Drake's ‘History of the North American Indians.’ It tells of his visit to Washington after the Black Hawk War. Keokuk succeeded his father as chief of the Sac and Fox tribe, and removed with his people from Quenemo, Kan., to their reservation in what is now Oklahoma, in 1868.