Alexander Adaire, president of the Philadelphia Lumber Exchange

Alexander Adaire was the president of the Philadelphia Lumber Exchange. In addition to running a lumber mill, Adaire also improved certain aspects in education. He lived in the Fishtown-Kensington for his entire life. He was buried at Odd Fellow’s Cemetery in January 1904.

Namesake for the Alexander Adaire Elementary School - https://scienceleadership.org/blog/The_History_of_Alexander_Adaire_Elementary_School

Whereabouts unknown. 1958