Kirksville
a city of Missouri, the county seat of Adair co. It is on the Wabash and the Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and coal mining region. The chief industry is the manufacture of shoes. There is a court house, a government building, and State normal school. Pop. (1910) 6,347; (1920) 7,213. a KIRMOAB (ker-mō'ab), a fortified city of Palestine, in the territory of Moab, mentioned in Isaiah xv: 1, was noticed in an act of the Council of Jerusalem in 536. In 1131, Fulk, Count of Anjou, and Latin king of Jerusalem, erected a castle here, which successfully resisted a siege by Saladin in 1183.