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George Adair

Among the pioneer settlers of Butler county George Adair is numbered. Six decades have been added to the cycle of centuries since he arrived in this section of the state. In fact no other resident of Shell Rock has so long lived in this district and throughout the entire period he has played well his part as a public-spirited citizen and an honorable man.

For sixteen years he has been president of the Shell Rock Creamery Company and for an extended period was actively identified with farming interests. In fact he has contributed much of the agricultural development to this section of the state and became widely known as proprietor of the Oakley Stock Farm.

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Mr. Adair was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 21, 1847, and is a son of George W. and Elizabeth Ellen (Smith) Adair. The father was born near Lexington, Virginia, October 31, 1813, and the mother's birth occurred in Michigan, March 24, 1824.

Coming to Iowa, he settled in Muscatine county, east of West