Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898.

Samuel Adair: Congregational missionary, minister, Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) hospital chaplain. Of Ohio; Dundee, Mich.; Osawatomie, Kan.

Samuel Lyle Adair and Florella (Brown) Adair were born in Ohio and educated at Oberlin College of Ohio. He was a Congregational minister as well as a school principal in Ohio and Michigan. They had 7 children but only 2 survived to adulthood. Samuel was supported as a missionary to the Kansas frontier by the American Missionary Association and moved his family to Kansas in 1854. They settled at Osawatomie in Lykins (now Miami) County in 1855. Samuel organized the First Congregational Church as an anti-slavery church. John Brown, Florella's half-brother, was also in Osawatomie at that time. During the Civil War, Reverend Adair was a chaplain for the U.S. Army at Fort Scott and at Fort Leavenworth. After the war, Samuel helped found the Kansas State Insane Asylum at Osawatomie. He died in Osawatomie.

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