Biography, W C Adair Madison County, AR

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ADAIR, Prof. W. C., of Huntsville College, was born in 1860, on February 12, in
Searcy County, Arkansas, and is the son of J. K. and Martha (McTYER) Adair. The
father was born in South Carolina in 1828, and was married in Alabama. He then
resided in Florida for some time, but afterward returned to Alabama, and in 1858
to Searcy County, Arkansas. Two years later he went to Fulton County, Arkansas,
and eighteen years later to Washington County, where he located in Fayetteville
for the purpose of giving his children educational advantages. He has been a
successful farmer, and now lives on White River, six miles from Fayetteville.
The mother was born in North Carolina about 1827, and when young moved to
Alabama. She died in Fayetteville in 1880. 

Professor Adair spent his youth upon a farm, his early education being received
at Philadelphia, Arkansas, and Ash Flat, Arkansas. In 1877 he entered the State
University, at Fayetteville, and after three years attendance began to teach
school. He has since taught at Goshen, Farmington, Viney Grove and Huntsville,
and other places. He took charge of the school here in January, 1888, and it is
already beginning to show the effect of his good teaching. 

He was married in 1884 to Miss Henrietta Belle SANDERS, of Washington County,
which union was blessed with one child, Eula C. Both the Professor and his wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 

Professor Adair owns a farm in Washington County, but devotes his chief
attention to his profession, desiring to raise the educational standard in this
part of the country. Politically he is a Democrat. "