At one time, the large JA Ranch, founded by Charles Goodnight and John George Adair, and later owned by Goodnight and Cornelia Adair, reached into six counties, including Swisher.

The county is named for John Adair, then Speaker of the House in Kentucky and later Governor of Kentucky ( 1820-1824 ).

It was named in honor of John Adair, later commander of Kentucky troops in the Battle of New Orleans and the eighth Governor of Kentucky.

The son of Jimmy and Mabel Adair, he was the youngest of their seven children, his siblings being ( in age order ) Margaret, Mabel, Jeanie, Etta, Lizzie and Archie, who was later also a UDA member.

Five days later, Adair was expelled from the UDA / UFF for treason along with close associate John White.

The UVF struck back forty-eight hours later on Monday morning, shooting dead two Adair associates, Jackie Coulter and Bobby Mahood, as they sat in a stationary Range Rover on the Crumlin Road, which neighbours the Shankill Road.

The UDA's Johnny Adair supported the LVF and used the feud to stoke up the troubles that eventually flared in his feud with the UVF later that year.

He built a home in the riding on Buffalo Lake, and was later accused of arranging for the lake to be risen so it would be better-suited for fishing ( though Adair claimed that the arrangements had been in place since 1979, when he had been Minister of Recreation, Parks and Wildlife ).

* Adair Crawford proposes the existence of the alkaline earth metal which will later be isolated at strontium.

The blazing remains of the platform were eventually extinguished three weeks later by a team led by famed firefighter Red Adair, despite reported conditions of winds and waves.

After leaving Major League Baseball, Adair played in Japan for a year, and later coached for the Oakland Athletics ( 1972 – 74 ) and the California Angels ( 1975 ), working under his former Oriole teammate and manager in Boston Dick Williams.

Virginia Hamilton Adair ( February 28, 1913, New York City-September 16, 2004, Claremont, California ) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of Ants on the Melon.

Five days later, Sharp ceased campaigning for the senatorial seat and accepted the appointment of Governor John Adair to the position of attorney general of Kentucky.

After hearing testimony, the grand jury dismissed the indictment against Adair as " not a true bill ", and similarly dismissed the charges against Burr two days later.

The number of men with Adair was later disputed ; sources variously give numbers between 700 and 1, 500.

Seeing the retreat of the Kentuckians, Morgan's militiamen abandoned their breastworks ; Adair would later claim they had never even fired a shot.

The younger Shoen worked his way through Oregon State College by running a chain of beauty parlors and barber shops in Corvallis and nearby Albany, and later at Camp Adair north of Corvallis and at the Hanford Reservation in Washington.

When Adair was charged with terrorist offences in 1995, he admitted that he had been a UDA leader for three years up to 1994.

Jackie Robinson, who beginning in 1991 sustained a nine-year off-and-on relationship with Adair, backed up this claim in an interview with The Mirror, in which she also alleged that Adair has been having sex with long-term friend and fellow loyalist Sam McCrory since they were teenagers Adair staunchly denies these claims.

The studio received so much mail about " How Will I Know My Love " ( lyrics by Tom Adair, music by Frances Jeffords and William Walsh ), that Walt Disney issued it as a single, and gave Funicello ( somewhat unwillingly ) a recording contract .< ref name =" interview ">

In August 2009 in a roundtable interview in Prospect magazine Adair Turner supported the idea of new global taxes on financial transactions, warning that a “ swollen ” financial sector paying excessive salaries has grown too big for society.

The red hands are borrowed from the Adair family arms, who gave the of ground on which the original school was built, itself represented by the blue rectangle below.

John Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest.

" Focusing upon Adair v. U. S. ( 1908 ), which invalidated another law regulating labor contracts, he berated the Court for not recognizing the " practical conditions of inequality.

On 9 January 1998, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, paid a surprise visit to the prison to talk to members of the Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UDA / UFF ) including Johnny Adair, Sam McCrory and Michael Stone.

Age pyramid for Adair County, Oklahoma, based on census 2000 data.

The county was organized January 29, 1841 and named for Governor John Adair of Kentucky.

* Janice Holt Giles ( 1909 – 1979 ), a writer noted particularly for her regional novels and nonfiction, lived in Adair County from 1949 until her death in 1979.

* Sergeant Dakota Meyer ( b. 1988 ), born and initially educated in Adair County, received the Medal of Honor in 2011 for his actions in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2009

It was named for John Adair, a general in the War of 1812, and the eighth Governor of Kentucky.

2000 Census Age Pyramid for Adair County.

* James Adair OBE, former Procurator-Fiscal for Glasgow

Eventually, Adair started a Rock Against Communism-styled band called Offensive Weapon which openly espoused support for the National Front.

Adair succeeded Jim Spence as brigadier in 1993 after Spence was imprisoned for extortion.

According to a press report in 2003, Adair was handed details of republican suspects by the Intelligence Corps, and was even invited for dinner with them in the early 1990s.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army's Shankill Road Bombing of a fish shop in October 1993 was an attempt to assassinate Adair and the rest of the UDA's Belfast leadership in reprisal for attacks on Catholics.

In January 1998, Adair was one of five loyalist prisoners visited in the prison by British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam.

In September 1999, Adair was released as part of early-release scheme for paramilitary prisoners under the Good Friday Agreement.

The " Diamond Jubilee " pub on the lower Shankill Road was the favourite meeting place for Adair and his C Company

Fearing an ambush, Adair had his allies " Fat " Jackie Thompson and James " Sham " Millar smuggle a pistol for him to the meeting.

Adair returned to prison in January 2003, when his early release licence was revoked by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Paul Murphy on grounds of engaging in unlawful activity.

In the early hours of 6 February ( five days after Gregg's shooting and just hours before his funeral was due to take place ), about twenty Adair supporters, including White and Adair's wife, fled their homes for Scotland after 100 heavily-armed men from the mainstream UDA invaded Adair's Boundary Way stronghold forcing them to quit Northern Ireland.