Person:John George Adair (1)

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John George Adair
b.3 Mar 1823 Ireland
d.4 May 1885 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Name[2] John George Adair
Gender Male
Birth[1] 3 Mar 1823 Ireland
Marriage 1869 (her 2nd husband)
to Cornelia Wadsworth
Death[1][2] 4 May 1885 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Burial? Glenveagh, County Donegal, Ireland


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John George Adair (March 3, 1823 – May 4, 1885), sometimes known as Jack Adair, was a Scotch-Irish American businessman and landowner who provided the seed capital for the large JA Ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas Panhandle, a region of Texas. In its peak year in 1883, the ranch encompassed in portions of six Texas counties and boasted 100,000 head of cattle.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John George Adair, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord. (New York: Workman Publishing, 1989).

    Adair, though untitled, was a large landowner in Ireland (he had bought widely after the potato famine) and had a tract in Texas rumored to produce £40,000 a year. He was the principal owner of the JA Ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon, Texas -- 1.33 million acres with 100,000 cattle.

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