A Pioneer in the Fullest Sense: The Wit and Wisdom of George Ade's Father

ISBN 10: 1734713658 / ISBN 13: 9781734713657

Published by Ade Royalties and Publishing, 2022

Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Mar2912160114977

Synopsis:

A Pioneer in the Fullest Sense chronicles the life and times of John Ade, the father of George Ade, one of America's greatest playwrights and humorists. Written largely by John himself with contributions from his son George and also editor and great-great-grandson William C. Ade, this volume offers a rare and entertaining glimpse into life on the Indiana prairie in the 1800s: everything from busting the sod upon which to build a new town to establishing a county government to sending local sons o ff to fight in the Civil War to surviving the brutality of winter on the frontier; these and many more stories are told through the eyes of John Ade, an immigrant, a patriarch, a community leader . . . a true self-made man whose wit and wisdom will serve as an inspiration to anyone wishing to understand what it was like to settle the Indiana prairie and build not just a new town, but a uniquely American life.

About the Author: William C. Ade, great-nephew of playwright George Ade, is an independent petroleum geologist specializing in international new ventures. Born and raised on a family farm in Indiana, he worked his way through school earning degrees in geology, physics and geology, and an MBA at Ball State. Will began his career in 1975 as a field geologist and geophysicist for Phillips Petroleum. Since the late-1970s his work has been primarily in Asia. In 1986 he founded a consulting company in Singapore generating wildcat exploration prospects, new ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He has found commercial oil and gas with an estimated recovery of over 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent, holding royalties on several of the fields he discovered. Will has spoken at many industry conferences, and his comments have appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Barron's. Will divides his time between international travel and his homes in Indiana and Florida. He is the author of The Artworks of LuEthel Davis Ade, A Pioneer in the Fullest Sense: The Wit and Wisdom of George Ade's Father, and Wildcat Road: Indiana Farms to Asian Oil Fields to Tiger 21.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Pioneer in the Fullest Sense: The Wit and ...
Publisher: Ade Royalties and Publishing
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New