10 Facts About Cornelia Adair

Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair was a Texas ranch landowner.

Cornelia Adair's father was a Union general in the American Civil War who was mortally wounded in battle during the Battle of the Wilderness of 1864.

Cornelia Adair's brother was US Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth, and her sister was Elizabeth S Wadsworth, who married Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore.

Cornelia Adair became an accomplished horserider which encouraged her interests in traveling across the prairies of the western United States.

In 1876, her second husband, John George Cornelia Adair, became a partner with Charles Goodnight to found the JA Ranch.

Cornelia Adair founded a hospital, and supported building the Clarendon YMCA building.

Cornelia Adair stayed at a Rathdaire, Ireland, cottage and at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland.

Cornelia Adair died at Corsham near Bath in England on September 22,1921.

Cornelia Adair bequeathed a large collection of Dada and Surrealist art to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Cornelia Adair was a grandmother of Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth "Montie" Ritchie, whose daughter, Cornelia's great-granddaughter, Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie, continued the family's ownership of JA Ranch.