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After John Adair's death, despite the distance and difficulty of travel at the time, Cornelia took an active interest in the JA and divided her time between the ranch, the castle in Ireland, and the house in England. She insisted that Goodnight pay high wages and recruit only upstanding [[cowboy]]s.<ref name=hbook/>​

After John Adair's death, despite the distance and difficulty of travel at the time, Cornelia took an active interest in the JA and divided her time between the ranch, the castle in Ireland, and the house in England. She insisted that Goodnight pay high wages and recruit only upstanding [[cowboy]]s.<ref name=hbook/>​

Sometimes, she questioned Goodnight's judgment in the management of the ranch. For instance, she hired John Edward Farrington as the manager after Goodnight withdrew from their arrangement even though Goodnight had specifically trained Henry Webster Taylor, Goodnight's nephew, as his successor. As the first JA manager, Goodnight had quarrelled with Cornelia's son, Jack, whom he claimed to have caught drinking [[alcohol]] and shooting craps with the cowboys in violation of the JA's strict code of ethics. Goodnight demoted Jack Ritchie, who moved to New York City and sold JA horses to the city police department.<ref name=PPHM/> In 1887, she traded the Quitaque Ranch for Goodnight's one-third interest in the JA, a share that comprised 336,000 acres, 48,000 cattle as well as [[mule]]s, horses, and rights to the JA brand.<ref>{{cite book​|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hc35mM0PqSQC&pg=PA570&lpg=PA570&dq=cornelia+adair&source=web&ots=rS2yaIZfHK&sig=XRyoLa_HTSxDSVI_zoH2KhQ7svY&hl=en​|title=Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography|author=Dan L. Thrapp​|year=1991​|publisher=[[University of Nebraska]] Press|isbn=0-8032-9419-0​}}</ref>​

Sometimes, she questioned Goodnight's judgment in the management of the ranch. For instance, she hired John Edward Farrington as the manager after Goodnight withdrew from their arrangement even though Goodnight had specifically trained Henry Webster Taylor, Goodnight's nephew, as his successor. As the first JA manager, Goodnight had quarrelled with Cornelia's son, Jack, whom he claimed to have caught drinking [[alcohol]] and shooting craps with the cowboys in violation of the JA's strict code of ethics. Goodnight demoted Jack Ritchie, who moved to New York City and sold JA horses to the city police department.<ref name=PPHM/> In 1887, she traded the Quitaque Ranch for Goodnight's one-third interest in the JA, a share that comprised 336,000 acres, 48,000 cattle as well as [[mule]]s, horses, and rights to the JA brand.<ref>Dan L. Thrapp, ''The Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography,'' University of Nebraska Press, 1999; isbn=0-8032-9419-0.</ref>​

In 1911, while she was in [[London]], Cornelia came upon her nephew, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., then a former [[Speaker]] of the New York Assembly. She persuaded Wadsworth to take the vacant position of JA manager. He agreed, but after four years left again in 1915, having been elected in 1914 as a Republican to the [[United States Senate]] from New York, the first class elected under the [[Seventeenth Amendment]]  to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref name=PPHM/>

In 1911, while she was in [[London]], Cornelia came upon her nephew, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., then a former [[Speaker]] of the New York Assembly. She persuaded Wadsworth to take the vacant position of JA manager. He agreed, but after four years left again in 1915, having been elected in 1914 as a Republican to the [[United States Senate]] from New York, the first class elected under the [[Seventeenth Amendment]]  to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref name=PPHM/>