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George Ade (
1866-
May 23 1944) was an American
writer, newspaper
columnist, and
playwright.
Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, one of seven children raised by John and Adaline (Bush) Ade. He graduated from Purdue University in 1887. Lafayette, Indiana is where he met and started a lifelong friendship with cartoonist John T. McCutcheon. Ade worked as a reporter for the Lafayette Call.
In 1890 Ade joined the Chicago Morning News, which later became the Chicago Record, where McCutcheon was working. He wrote the column, Stories of the Streets and of the Town. In the column, which McCutcheon illustrated, George Ade illustrated Chicago-life. It featured characters like Artie, an office boy; Doc Horne, a gentlemanly liar; and Pink Marsh, a black shoeshine boy. Ade's humorous fables were immediately popular.
He was also playwright, producing Artie, The Sultan of Sulu, The College Widow, and The Fair Co-ed.
After twelve years in Chicago, he built a home near the town of Brook, Indiana (Newton County). It soon became known for hosting a campaign stop in 1908 by William Howard Taft, a rally for Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in 1912, and a homecoming for soldiers and sailors in 1919.
The Ross-Ade football stadium at Purdue University was built with his (and David Ross's) financial support.
George Ade died in Brook, Indiana.
Works
- Artie. A story of the streets and town (1896)
- Pink Marsh : a story of the streets and town (1897)
- Doc' Horne (1899)
- Fables in slang (1900)
- More fables (1900)
- American vacations in Europe (1901)
- Forty modern fables (1901)
- Ki-Ram (1901)
- Girl proposition (1902)
- The County Chairman (1903)
- Handsome Cyril, or, The messenger boy with the warm feet (1903)
- In Babel; stories of Chicago (1903)
- People you know (1903)
- Strenuous lad's library (1903)
- Sultan of Sulu; an original satire in two acts (1903)
- Breaking into society (1904)
- The College Widow (1904)
- Sho gun, an original comic opera in two acts (1904)
- True bills (1904)
- Round about Cairo, with and without the assistance of the dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient (1906)
- Slim princess (1907)
- Fair co-ed (1909)
- Old town (1909)
- I remember him when : a Hoosier fable dealing with the happy days of away back yonder (1910)
- Hoosier hand book and true guide for the returning exile (1911)
- Verses and jingles (1911)
- Just out of college; a light comedy in three acts (1912)
- Knocking the neighbors (1913)
- Ade's fables (1914)
- Invitation to you and your folks from Jim and some more of the home folks (1916)
- Marse Covington; a play in one act (1918)
- Hand-made fables (1920)
- Single blessedness, and other observations (1922)
- Mayor and the manicure; a play in one act (1923)
- Nettie, a play in one act (1923)
- Speaking to father; a play in one act (1923)
- Father and the boys; a comedy-drama (1924)
- On the Indiana trail (1930)
- Old-time saloon: not wet--not dry, just history (1931)
- Thirty fables in slang (1933)
- One afternoon with Mark Twain (1939)
- Notes & reminiscences (with John T. McCutcheon) (1940)
External links
George Ade eTexts at Project Gutenberg
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