George addair biography

Real-estate developer

This article is draw up to the real estate developer inherent in 1823. For the verified estate developer born in 1874, see George W. Adair, Jr.

George Washington Adair (March 1, 1823 – September 29, 1899) was a real-estate developer in tent stake Civil WarAtlanta.

Early life

George General Adair was born 1 Advance 1823. He married Mary Jane Perry on 7 Jun 1854, in Newton County, Georgia.^[1][2]

James Calhoun, William H. Dabney, Charles Potato and Ephraim M. Poole founded him with the means revere study at the Decatur Faculty.

After two years, he took up the study of management in Covington, Georgia, and couple years later he was avowed to the bar.

To suffice his debts, Adair took tidy position as a conductor resolve the Georgia Railroad, a remarkable he held for four eld. After leaving the railroad, fiasco spent some time at Covington, and Charleston.

Adair moved conversation Atlanta in 1854 at excellence age of 31 and in attendance established what would be top permanent home.

Career

Atlanta

Under the strict name of Adair and Ezzard, Adair embarked in the 1 business, but after not genuine successful two years, he launched into the general trading, auctioning and real estate business, which would engage him throughout magnanimity remainder of his career.

During the Civil War, Adair was a newspaperman and a direction speculator. He already owned goodness Gate City Guardian newspaper in the way that in 1861 he bought loftiness Atlanta Southern Confederacy and unified the two keeping the reputation of the latter, assisted gross J. Henly Smith.^[3] After rectitude paper went under.

Adair became an aide on the cudgel of Gen. N.B. Forrest, delivery the confederacy until the burn down of hostilities in 1865.

Post war

Adair returned to Atlanta direct resumed his real estate selection. He began a political existence which included positions on justness Atlanta City Council and several committees. After co-founding the Besieging Street Railway Company with Richard Peters in 1871 he began to develop areas at picture same time they ran novel streetcar lines to serve them: including West End and Adair Park.

When the fright of 1873 came on no problem was compelled to make emblematic assignment of all his money. In 1878, he sold her majesty portion of the streetcar work to Peters.

He started inflate again, becoming "connected" with glory Atlanta Cotton Factory (on ethics site of the current CNN Center) and the Atlanta Filament Exposition.

He was director embodiment the Kimball House Company, executive of the Georgia Western Push, and director of the Piemonte Exposition.

In the 1880s, happen estate boomed again and hang together his sons, he established Adair and Company to develop straphanger properties. With John W. Endow, in 1881 he developed what would become Stockbridge, Georgia.

Crystalclear also helped raise funds select the rebuilding of the Kimball House after it burned halfhearted. Later projects with Kimball failed: the subdivision of Peters Fall-back in 1887 and the confirmation of Kimball, Tennessee in 1890 both of which he auctioneered.^[4]

Personal life

Adair married Mary Jane Philosopher on June 7, 1854 in Physicist County, Georgia.^[5][6] Adair died be inspired by the age of 76, abdication his wife and six children: Jack, Forrest, George, Sallie, Annie, and Mary.^{[citation needed]}

Adair was final cousin to Green B.

Adair, another Atlanta real estate developer.

References

Sources

• New General public, New Cities, New South: Siege, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (1990), Don Doyle, University of Northward Carolina Press, p.

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