George Washington Adair

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1838-08-16

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c1922

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"George Washington Adair" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00011489, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Nicholas County, Kentucky, dentist. Kentucky native. Son of Richard Adair and Mary Tarr Adair. Married to Mary H. Henry Adair on October 29, 1861. Student in Nicholas County in 1850. Studied dentistry in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and the Cincinnati Dental College. Dentist in Nicholas County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 412A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, p. 277B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Nicholas County, KY, July 1863, p. 6, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "George Washington Adair (1838-1922)," Memorial 184255242, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184255242 (accessed December 6, 2019). Perrin, William Henry, ed.. History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky. Chicago, IL, USA: O. L. Baskin, 1882, 731.

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