O.H. Adair

    O.H. Adair, a prominent and influential citizen of Portland, has been a member of the bar of Jay County since April, 1880, at which time he began his professional career. He is at present prosecuting attorney of this district, having been appointed to his present position by the Governor of the State March 9, 1885, and elected to the office in the fall of 1886. Previous to his appointment he had served as deputy prosecuting attorney for four years under John T. France, of Decatur.

    Mr. Adair has passed the whole of his life in Jay County having been born in Bear Creek Township in December, 1852. His father, James G. Adair, was a native of Pennsylvania, and subsequently settled in Ohio. He came from Ohio to Jay County several years before the birth of our subject, living here till his death in November 1873.

    O.H. Adair, the subject of our sketch, received good educational advantages, and was for some time a student at Liber College, and in July, 1876, he graduated from the Eastern Indiana Normal School. He followed the avocation of a teacher for a number of years, beginning at the age of seventeen years, teaching in all about five years in Jay County. In the fall of 1877 he began reading law in the office of Headington & La Follett, of Portland, and in April, 1880, he was admitted to the bar, when he began his law practice, forming a partnership with Thomas Bosworlth. He was associated with ;Mr. Bosworth until December, 1886, when the duties of his position as prosecuting attorney required the dissolution of this partnership.

     In his political views Mr. Adair affiliates with the Democratic party.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford County, Indiana. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. Page 371.