Charles C. Keeler Who's Who in Arizona, 1913, pg 543 Charles C. Keeler, sheriff of Yavapai County, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, April 13, 1859. His father Eli Keeler, was a Captain in the Union Army during the Civil War, having enlisted from Des Moines. Mr. Keeler has been in every state and territory west of the Mississippi River as well as in Mexico and first came to Arizona in 1888. He first lived in Phoenix, but removed to Prescott, where he has lived for the past twenty-three years. During most of this time he has been engaged in trading and mining, but has also been employed as a government packer. He served three years as Deputy under Sheriff James Smith of Yavapai, won many friends and much commendation while in this position and it was largely on his record as Deputy Sheriff that he was elected to his present office in the fall of 1911.