KEOKUK,  (interpretation,  "The  Watchful
Fox''),  a  Chief  of  the  Sacs  and  Foxes,  born  on
Rock  River,  about  1780.  He  had  the  credit  of
shrewdness  and  bravery,  which  enabled  him
finally  to  displace  his  rival,  Black  Hawk.  He
always  professed  ardent  friendship  for  the  whites,
although  this  was  not  infrequently  attributed  to
a  far-seeing  policy.  He  earnestly  dissuaded
Black  Hawk  from  the  formation  of  his  confeder-
acy, and  when  the  latter  was  forced  to  surrender
himself  to  the  United  States  authorities,  he  was
formally  delivered  to  the  custody  of  Keokuk.  By
the  Rock  Island  treaty,  of  September,  1832,  Keo-
kuk was  formally  recognized  as  the  principal
Chief  of  the  Sacs  and  Foxes,  and  granted  a  reser-
vation on  the  Iowa  River,  40  miles  square.  Here
he  lived  until  1845,  when  he  removed  to  Kansas,
where,  in  June,  1848,  he  fell  a  victim  to  poison,
supposedly  administered  by  some  partisan  of
Black  Hawk.  (See  Black  Hawk  and  Black  Hawk
War.)

KERFOOT,  Samuel  H.,  real-estate  operator,
was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Dec.  18,  1823,  and
educated  under  the  tutorship  of  Rev.  Dr.  Muh-
lenburg  at  St.  Paul's  College,  Flushing,  Long
Island,  graduating  at  the  age  of  19.  He  was
then  associated  with  a  brother  in  founding  St.
James  College,  in  Washington  County,  Md.,  but,
in  is |s,  removed  to  Chicago  and  engaged  in  the
real-estate  business,  in  which  he  was  one  of  the
oldest  operators  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Dec.  28,
1896.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  a  life
member  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society  and  of
the  Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  associated
with  other  learned  and  social  organizations.  He
was  also  a  member  of  the  original  Real   Estate


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