Mahaska

Mahaska, for whom Mahaska County was named, was a chief of the Ioway Tribe of Indians. He lived at peace with the white man and was slain by an Indian in 1834 at the age of fifty years in what is now Cass County, Iowa. The Ioways, a powerful tribe of Indians for which the State of Iowa was named, at one time inhabited the southeastern portion of the territory that now constitutes the State of Iowa, including the area within Mahaska County. William Edmundson settled in Iowa in 1836 and, as sheriff under appointment by the territorial legislature, had charge of the organization of Mahaska County, which was completed on May 13, 1844.

Oskaloosa, Iowa · United States