Adair family reminiscences 1931

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Adair family reminiscences 1931

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv77983

Collection comprises photocopied typescripts of reminiscences by and about Mary Ann Dickinson Adair and John Adair. John Adair and his family traveled to Oregon via Panama and California after President Polk appointed him Collector of Customs in Astoria. The texts concern life in Kentucky and Oregon and include family information and transcriptions of archival records. Texts of letters written by Mrs. Adair during the journey are also included.

0.1 linear feet, 1 folder

eng,

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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Barker, Laura P.

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Adair, Mary Ann

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Adair family

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John Adair was born in White Hall, Kentucky in 1808, the youngest of eleven children of General John Adair (Senior) and Anna Palmer Adair. When the younger John Adair was a young boy, his father served as Governor of Kentucky. He married Ann C. Dickinson in 1834 and the couple would have thirteen children over the next twenty-two years. Later, John Adair decided to free all of his slaves and move his family to Indiana. They suffered the loss of three of their children while in India...

Adair, John, 1757-1840

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Soldier, politician, and governor of Ky. From the description of John Adair : miscellaneous papers, 1797-1824. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46605138 ...