Biographical information, including the following, was provided by Dawna Westbrook:
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Charles Adair was born at Clarksburg, Yolo County, California to William Horry Adair and his wife, Elizabeth Frances Ross. His paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution and survived the war but was later killed by a band of Tories; his father was a native of Alabama, spent 12 years in California when a young man. He entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Company E, Fourth Mississippi Regiment and was killed at the siege of Vicksburg.
Charles Adair attended public school and spent a year at Mississippi College, Clinton. He then attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He took his degree in law in 1881 and began that same year practicing at Johnsonville.
He had various professions such as lawyer, druggist, journalist and farmer.
He served 2 terms as Mayor of Indianola, 1899-1901 and 1904-1905. He was elected to the House of Representatives, for Sunflower County, on Nov. 5, 1907. A term of office that began in January 1908.
Mr. Adair married Julia Eldredge Colmery, daughter of Daniel Webster Colmery and wife, Mary Eldredge Lacy. They were married at Vaiden, MS on Sept. 11, 1888.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1080
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Charles Adair was born at Clarksburg, Yolo County, California to William Horry Adair and his wife, Elizabeth Frances Ross. His paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution and survived the war but was later killed by a band of Tories; his father was a native of Alabama, spent 12 years in California when a young man. He entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Company E, Fourth Mississippi Regiment and was killed at the siege of Vicksburg.
Charles Adair attended public school and spent a year at Mississippi College, Clinton. He then attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He took his degree in law in 1881 and began that same year practicing at Johnsonville.
He had various professions such as lawyer, druggist, journalist and farmer.
He served 2 terms as Mayor of Indianola, 1899-1901 and 1904-1905. He was elected to the House of Representatives, for Sunflower County, on Nov. 5, 1907. A term of office that began in January 1908.
Mr. Adair married Julia Eldredge Colmery, daughter of Daniel Webster Colmery and wife, Mary Eldredge Lacy. They were married at Vaiden, MS on Sept. 11, 1888.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1080
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Biographical information, including the following, was provided by Dawna Westbrook:
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Charles Adair was born at Clarksburg, Yolo County, California to William Horry Adair and his wife, Elizabeth Frances Ross. His paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution and survived the war but was later killed by a band of Tories; his father was a native of Alabama, spent 12 years in California when a young man. He entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Company E, Fourth Mississippi Regiment and was killed at the siege of Vicksburg.
Charles Adair attended public school and spent a year at Mississippi College, Clinton. He then attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He took his degree in law in 1881 and began that same year practicing at Johnsonville.
He had various professions such as lawyer, druggist, journalist and farmer.
He served 2 terms as Mayor of Indianola, 1899-1901 and 1904-1905. He was elected to the House of Representatives, for Sunflower County, on Nov. 5, 1907. A term of office that began in January 1908.
Mr. Adair married Julia Eldredge Colmery, daughter of Daniel Webster Colmery and wife, Mary Eldredge Lacy. They were married at Vaiden, MS on Sept. 11, 1888.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1080
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Charles Adair was born at Clarksburg, Yolo County, California to William Horry Adair and his wife, Elizabeth Frances Ross. His paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution and survived the war but was later killed by a band of Tories; his father was a native of Alabama, spent 12 years in California when a young man. He entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Company E, Fourth Mississippi Regiment and was killed at the siege of Vicksburg.
Charles Adair attended public school and spent a year at Mississippi College, Clinton. He then attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He took his degree in law in 1881 and began that same year practicing at Johnsonville.
He had various professions such as lawyer, druggist, journalist and farmer.
He served 2 terms as Mayor of Indianola, 1899-1901 and 1904-1905. He was elected to the House of Representatives, for Sunflower County, on Nov. 5, 1907. A term of office that began in January 1908.
Mr. Adair married Julia Eldredge Colmery, daughter of Daniel Webster Colmery and wife, Mary Eldredge Lacy. They were married at Vaiden, MS on Sept. 11, 1888.
Source: Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi by Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History, Published 1908, p.: 1080
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