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COUNTY DISCIPLINE
Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924) is northeast Indiana's most famous author, and she is not Fort Wayne's. Born on a farm in Wabash County, she lived and worked at Limberlost Cabin in Geneva, in Adams County, beside the Limberlost Swamp, and later at Wildflower Woods near Rome City, in Noble County. Freckles (1904) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) are Geneva books; ten million copies of her work had sold by 1924. Her ground begins some twenty-five miles southeast of Fort Wayne, and it is honored there, at two state historic sites.
George Ade (1866–1944), the humorist of Fables in Slang, was born in Kentland, in Newton County, worked the Chicago newspapers, and built his estate, Hazelden, near Brook in his home county. He belongs to Newton County and to Chicago. The two are entered here only because "northeast Indiana author" so easily blurs into "Fort Wayne author" — in this record, it does not.
Sources: Indiana Historical Bureau marker, "Gene Stratton-Porter" (2013), and Indiana Department of Natural Resources site records; Indiana Landmarks, Indiana Preservation (May/June 2024), on Ade's Kentland birth and Hazelden.