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'''Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair''' (April 6, 1837 – September 22, 1921) was the matriarch of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, [[Ireland]], now an Irish national park, and the large [[JA Ranch]] southeast of [[Amarillo]] in the [[Texas]] Panhandle, a still-active [[cattle]] ranch. She is also remembered for having become a naturalized British subject and as a published diarist.​

'''Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair''' (April 6, 1837 – September 22, 1921) was the matriarch of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, [[Ireland]], now an Irish national park, and the large [[JA Ranch]] southeast of [[Amarillo]] in the [[Texas]] Panhandle, a still-active [[cattle]] ranch. She is also remembered for having become a naturalized [[Great Britain|British]] subject and as a published diarist.​

==Background==

==Background==

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>​

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. Cornelia 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/> He remained in the Senate until 1927, after which there was no Republican senator for New York until [[Irving Ives]] in 1947.

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/>​