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- 1922-2007
Robert Nichols Adair, 1922-2007, was born in Maysville, Kentucky, USA. He was educated at the Kentucky Military Institute and Cornell University. He started in the oil industry in Texas in 1946 and moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1950. He worked for Stanolind Oil and Pathfinder Oil and Gas before forming his own companies, R.N. Adair Oil Management and Zorayda Oil Company. He started writing the R. Adair Oil Memorandum (a weekly publication) for a client in 1964 and published it until his death in 2007.