George Ade

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George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who rose to national prominence at the turn of the twentieth century with his book "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," a column that used street words and slang to characterize daily life in Chicago, as well as a column of his fables in slang, which were satisfied stories that included verna

Ade's fables in slang earned him fortune and notoriety as an American humorist as well as giving him the nickname "Aesop of Indiana" (which also gave him fame and a reputation as an American humorist. Ade's best early books include Artie (1896); Pink Marsh (1897); Fables in Slang (1900), the first in a series of books; and In Babel (1903), a collection of his short stories.

The Sultan of Sulu, written in 1901, was Ade's first play to be produced on Broadway.

In 1904, the Sho-Gun and his best-known plays, The County Chairman and The College Widow, were both on Broadway.

Ade also wrote scripts and had some of his fables and plays turned into motion pictures. The Purdue University graduate from Lafayette, Indiana, began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter in Lafayette, Indiana, before transferring to Chicago, Illinois, to work with the Chicago Daily News.

Ade's writing was in addition to writing; he loved traveling, golfing, and entertaining at Hazelden, his estate home near Brook, Indiana.

Ade served on the board of trustees of Purdue University from 1909 to 1916, a long-serving member of Sigma Chi (his college fraternity) and a former president of the Mark Twain Association of America.

In addition, he donated funds for the construction of Purdue's Memorial Union Building, and with David Edward Ross, he contributed land and funds for the construction of Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium, which was named in their honor in 1924.

Early life and education

George Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, on February 9, 1866, to farmer and bank cashier John and Adaline Wardell (Bush) Ade. George was the second youngest of the family's seven children (four boys and three girls). George's father was the Newton County, Indiana, recorder, and also a banker in Kentland; his mother was a homemaker. George loved reading from an early age, but he disliked manual labour and was not interested in becoming a farmer. Despite the fact that he graduated from Kentland High School in 1881, his mother did not believe he was ready for college. As a result, Ade stayed in high school for another year before enrolling at Purdue University in 1883 on scholarship.

Ade studied science at Purdue, but his grades started to fall after his first year as he became more involved in the college's social life. Ade's passion for theater was also a source of fascination, and he became a regular at the Grand Opera House in Lafayette, Indiana. In addition, he joined Sigma Chi fraternity. Ade also met and began a lifelong friendship with cartoonist and Sigma Chi fraternity brother John T. McCutcheon. In 1887, Ade earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue. He briefly considered becoming a lawyer but decided against it in favour of pursuing a career in journalism.

Personal life

Ade's writing had brought him financial freedom in Chicago, and he retired to a life of leisure in the United States by the early 1900s. Ade invested his money in Newton County, Indiana, farmland, eventually owning about 2,400 acres (970 hectares). William Ade, George's brother, purchased a 417-hectare (169-hectare) tract of wooded land along the Iroquois River in Newton County, Indiana, in 1902. George had intended to build a summer cottage. Rather, Chicago architect Billie Mann, a Sigma Chi fraternity brother, designed for Ade, a two-story, fourteen-room country manor, which was built at an estimated cost of US$25,000. Ade named the house Hazelden after his English grandparents' house and moved from Chicago to the newly built 1904 farmhouse. The property later included landscaped grounds, a swimming pool, greenhouse, barn, and caretaker's cottage, among other outbuildings, in addition to the Tudor Revival-style home. In 1910, Ade built a second golf course and country club.

Ade often entertained at his Indiana home. Hazelden was used for more than a summer home (and his permanent residence, which was established in 1905), and for community gatherings and community activities. In 1908, Hazelden announced his candidacy for president of the United States and unveiled his campaign. In 1912, it was also used as the site for a political rally for Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party and 1924's Vice President Charles W. Dawes' address. (Ade, a political centrist, favors Republican Party candidates.) On July 4, 1919, Ade hosted a homecoming party for soldiers and sailors, local children, Purdue University alumni, Sigma Chi fraternity brothers, members of the Indiana Society of Chicago, and golf tournaments.

Ade spent the summer months at his Hazelden home in Newton County, Indiana, and vacationed during the winter months at a rented house in Miami, Florida. He was also a world traveler with numerous trips to Europe, the West Indies, China, and Japan. Ade enjoyed horse racing and golf in addition to his frequent travels.

Ade, a youth who never married, maintained a large circle of acquaintances and was active in literary, civic, and political clubs. He was cofounder of the Indiana Society of Chicago, a literary group, in 1905. In 1908, Ade served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Ade was a long-serving supporter of Purdue University and Sigma Chi, who also attended college. In his later years and as a member of Purdue's board of trustees from 1909 to 1916, he served as national president of Sigma Chi in his later years and as a trustee of the board of trustees. Ade was also a member of the Purdue Alumni Association. Ade funded the construction of Purdue's Memorial Gymnasium and its Memorial Union Building. Ade and David Edward Ross, another Purdue alum, purchased 65 acres (26 hectares) of land in 1922 to be used as the site of a new football stadium on Purdue's campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. In addition, Ade and Ross funded the building of the Ross-Ade Stadium in their honor, which was officially dedicated on November 22, 1924. Ade was also leading a fund-raising effort to endow the Sigma Chi mother house at Miami University, where the fraternity was first established. In 1929, Ade wrote Sigma Chi Creed, which is one of the fraternity's main documents.

Ade spent time in his later years as a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (American Academy of Arts and Letters) and a board member of the Authors Guild. In 1926, Purdue University granted Ade an honorary degree in the humanities, and in 1927, Indiana University gave him an honorary law degree. He served as president of the Mark Twain Association of America in the early 1940s. Ade's life slowed after he suffered a stroke in June 1943 that left him partially paralyzed and a string of heart attacks in 1944.

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Career

Ade did not begin his writing career in college. He worked in Lafayette, Indiana, as a reporter and telegraph editor for the Lafayette Morning News and then the Lafayette Call, 1887, after graduating from Purdue University. Ade earned a meager paycheck writing testimonials for a patent-medicine firm after the newspaper stopped being published. By 1890, he had migrated to Chicago, Illinois, and resumed his work as a newspaper reporter, joining John T. McCutcheon, his college friend and Sigma Chi fraternity brother, at the Chicago Daily News (which later became the Chicago Morning News and the Chicago Record), where McCutcheon was an illustrator.

Ade's first job was writing a daily weather report for the Morning News. He covered several major news events, including the explosion of the Tioga on the Chicago River in 1892; and the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) in 1893.

Ade developed his knack for transforming local human interest stories into humourous satire while at work at the Chicago Record. Ade was put in charge of the daily column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," which often included McCutcheon's illustrations. The column introduced Artie, an office child; Doc Horne, a "gentlemanly liar,"; and Pink Marsh, an African American shoehine boy who worked in a barbershop, through Ade's use of street language and slang. Ade's columns were also published in books such as Artie (1896), Pink Marsh (1897), and Doc' Horne (1899), which all contributed to the column's increasing success. Ade's newspaper columns also included dialogue and short plays containing his comedic observations of everyday life.

In 1897, Ade first used his fables in slang, which was the Chicago Record. "The Fable of Sister Mae, Who Did As Well As Should Be Expected" appeared on September 17, 1897, and the second one, "A Fable in Slang," appeared a year later; others were published in a weekly column. Ade's idiosyncratic capitalization of the characters' dialogue is included in these amusing stories, complete with morals, illustrated vernacular speech, and Ade's idiosyncratic capitalization of the characters' dialogue. In 1899, Ade left the Chicago Record to work on a nationally syndicated newspaper column of his fables in slang. Fables in Slang (1900), the first in a series of Ade's fables, was popular with the public, and for nearly twenty years, more collections of his fables were turned into separate books, culminating with Hand-Made Fables (1920). Ade's fables appeared in periodicals, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company produced them as motion-picture shorts, and Art Helfant converted them into comic strips.

Ade's newspaper columns went into syndication in 1900, and he began writing plays. The Sultan of Sulu, a comedic opera about the American military's efforts to assimilate natives of the Philippines into American culture, was his first play on Broadway. It was written in 1901 by composer Nathaniel D. Mann and lyricist Alfred George Whathall and premiered on Broadway in 1902. Peggy from Paris (1903), a musical performance; The County Chairman (1903), a piece about small-town politics; and The College Widow (1904), a comedy about college life and American collegiate football.

Ade's theatrical performances, such as The Bad Samaritan (1905), were not all successful, but three of his plays (The College Widow, The Shogun, and The County Chairman) were on Broadway in 1904. The County Chairman and The College Widow, two of Ade's most popular Broadway plays, were also converted into motion pictures, making them one of the most popular of Ade's Broadway productions. The Old Town, Ade's last Broadway play before he resigned from playwriting, was produced in 1910.

Ade began writing one-act plays for small theatre companies in the United States after Ade retired from writing Broadway plays in 1910. Marse Covington is considered one of the finest of his one-act plays. Ade also wrote scripts for moving films, including Our Leading Citizen (1922 silent film), Back Home and Broke (1922 silent film) and Woman-Proof (1923 silent film) for actor Thomas Meighan. Will Rogers, U.S. Minister Bedlow, and The County Chairman, a 1935-screen adaptation of the play, but Ade did not get along with Hollywood filmmakers.

Ade's plays were no longer in fashion by the mid-1920s, but he continued to write research, short stories, and journals for newspapers and magazines in place of film scripts. Ade also wrote about his lengthy travels, but he is best known for his humourous columns, essays, books, and plays. In addition to making him wealthy, his fables in slang tales and a series of books earned him notoriety as an American writer. In 1931, his last book, The Old-Time Saloon, was published.

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Honors and awards

• Honorary degree in the humanities from Purdue University, 1926
• Honorary law degree from Indiana University, 1927
• Ross–Ade Stadium at Purdue University was named in honor of Ade and David E. Ross, both of whom were Purdue alumni and major donors.
• The World War II Liberty Ship SS George Ade was named in his honor.