Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Adair, Samuel March 16, 1859 - 
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

    Samuel A. Adair, who was one of the earliest settlers in Routt county, and

who is now retired from active pursuits after many years of productive and

active usefulness in this county, is a native of McMinn county, Tennessee, born

on March 16, 1859, and the son of William C. and Maltie (Reid) Adair, the former

a native of Tennessee and the latter of North Carolina.  The parents were

farmers and the father, who is still living in his native state, is an active

Republican in politics.  The mother died in 1885.  Ten of their twelve children

are living, William W., Samuel A., John, Clara (Mrs. John Colthorp), Gustavus,

Nora (Mrs. T.B. Pain), James, Emma (Mrs. William Erwin), Vada (Mrs. Jesse

Stringham) and Cora (Mrs. George P. Anderson).  Samuel received a common-school

education and has made his own way in the world since he was twenty years old,

previous to that time assisting his parents on the farm.  In 1880 he came to

Colorado and located at Hahn’s Peak in Routt county, where he wrought in the

mines for wages until the fall of 1881.  He then turned his attention to raising

cattle on the open range on Bear river.  This he continued until the autumn of

1882, when he sold his cattle and began raising horses, keeping at that until

1888.  In that year he disposed of his horses and again began raising cattle. 

In 1882 he homesteaded on a ranch which is a part of his late home place.  This

comprises eight hundred acres, and on it until recently he carried on an

extensive ranching and cattle industry.  When he settled on his land it was all

wild and wholly without improvements of any kind.  He has brought the greater

part of it to a high state of cultivation and has made many valuable and

attractive improvements on it so that it is now one of the most productive and

desirable ranch homes in his portion of the state.  Recently he sold the ranch

and his live stock to Carry Brothers, and since then he has not been actively

engaged in any business.  He was a very progressive man, keenly alive to the

needs of the section in which he lived and always foremost in providing for

them.  He aided in building the Brock ditch and numerous other works of local

improvement, being ever in earnest with his effective influence and example in

developing the section.  Politically he is an ardent Republican, but he has

never sought or desired official station.  He was married on September 30, 1885

to Miss Cordelia Walker, a native of North Carolina and the daughter of William

R. Walker, who became a resident of Routt county in 1882 among the first

settlers here.  Mr. and Mrs. Adair have two children, Gordon B. and Mattie A. 

Beginning in this state with nothing, Mr. Adair has used his opportunities to

good advantage and won from adverse circumstances a very good estate, at the

same time helping to push forward the progress and improvement of the wild

region in which he came and where he has labored to such good ends.



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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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