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One of the JA managers was [[T. D. Hobart|Timothy Dwight Hobart]], a [[Vermont]] native whose experience was more in real estate than in raising cattle. He had surveyed the five million acres  of the New York and Texas Land Company in Mobeetie,  one of the first three settlements in the Panhandle. He was affiliated with the White Deer Land Company in Pampa in Gray County, Texas. He was also a president of the [[Fort Worth]]-based Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Cornelia trusted him to be co-executor of her estate, of which there were many outstanding debts, not settled for two decades. Hobart was elected mayor of Pampa in 1927 but served only a few months.<ref name=PPHM/>​
 
One of the JA managers was [[T. D. Hobart|Timothy Dwight Hobart]], a [[Vermont]] native whose experience was more in real estate than in raising cattle. He had surveyed the five million acres  of the New York and Texas Land Company in Mobeetie,  one of the first three settlements in the Panhandle. He was affiliated with the White Deer Land Company in Pampa in Gray County, Texas. He was also a president of the [[Fort Worth]]-based Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Cornelia trusted him to be co-executor of her estate, of which there were many outstanding debts, not settled for two decades. Hobart was elected mayor of Pampa in 1927 but served only a few months.<ref name=PPHM/>​
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==Residence in Clarendon==​
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==House in Clarendon==​
 
Being a naturalized British subject who spent most of her time in Ireland, Cornelia also maintained a home in Clarendon in Donley County.She contributed generously to various civic projects about the JA Ranch, which by the time of her death covered half a million acres. She provided funds to build the Adair Hospital, later the Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon. She contributed to the first [[YMCA]] building and to the [[Episcopal]] Church in Clarendon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703164517/|title=Saints' Roost Museum|publisher=saintsroost.org|accessdateJuly 3, 2008}}</ref>​
 
Being a naturalized British subject who spent most of her time in Ireland, Cornelia also maintained a home in Clarendon in Donley County.She contributed generously to various civic projects about the JA Ranch, which by the time of her death covered half a million acres. She provided funds to build the Adair Hospital, later the Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon. She contributed to the first [[YMCA]] building and to the [[Episcopal]] Church in Clarendon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703164517/|title=Saints' Roost Museum|publisher=saintsroost.org|accessdateJuly 3, 2008}}</ref>​
  
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