Today in Indiana History

February 9 , 2010

Today is the birthday of one of Indiana’s most renowned literary figures. George Ade was born near Kentland on February 9, 1866. He graduated from Purdue in 1887 and worked on newspapers in Lafayette and Chicago. Among his best known humorous works are Fables in Slang and two plays he wrote shortly after the turn of the century, The County Chairman and The College Widow. He spent his later years at his home at Brook in Newton County, where he died in 1944.