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
Reference Number? Q6235095?


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John George Adair (3 March 1823– 4 May,[1] 1885), sometimes known as Jack Adair, born in County Laois, Ireland, was a Scots-Irish businessman and landowner, financier of JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle.

Adair had made his fortune in Ireland buying up estates bankrupt after the Irish potato great famine.

In 1866 Adair made his first visit to the United States and established a brokerage firm in New York City for the purpose of placing British loans in America at higher interest rates than those in Britain.

Together with his business partner Charles Goodnight, Adair established the JA Ranch, the first cattle ranch in the Texas panhandle in 1877 in the Palo Duro Canyon area.

In 1867, at a ball given in honor of Congressman J. C. Hughes, Adair met Mrs. Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie, whom he married in 1869.[2]

He is buried at Rathdaire Protestant Parish Church, Ballybrittas.[3]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John George Adair, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  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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