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ERVIN ADE IS ONE OF THE WIDE-AWAKE, AMBITIOUSAND RESOLUTE YOUNG BUSINESS MEN OF HUNTINGTON
COUNTY, LIVING IN THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON, WHERE HE IS ENGAGED IN THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS
UNDER THE FIRM STYLE OF ADE BROTHERS. A SELF MADE MAN, HIS SUCESS HAS COME AS A RESULT OF
HIS RECOGNITION OF OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY HAVE OPENED UP BEFORE HIM, HIS COURAGE IN
GRASPING THEM AND HIS ABILITY IN ATTAINING FROM THEM THEIR UTMOST POSSIBLITIES. FOR
SEVERAL YEARS THE HUNTINGTON RESTAURANT HAS BEEN LOCATED ON SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET, AND
HAS GROWN IN POPULARITY UNTIL IT IS NOW ONE OF THE BEST PATRONIZED PLACES OF ITS KIND.
ERVIN ADE WAS BORN IN WABASH COUNTY, INDIANA, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF NORTH MANCHESTER,
OCTOBER 27, 1880, AND IS THE YOUNGEST SON OF FREDERICK AND CAROLINE (EBERHART) ADE. HIS
FATHER, A NATIVE OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, OHIO WAS BORN IN 1848, AND WAS BY OCCUPATION A
FARMER, A VOCATION WHICH HE FOLLOWED THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. FROM WABASH COUNTY THE FAMILY
MOVED TO HUNTINGTON COUNTY AND SETTLED FOR A TIME ON A PROPERTY IN HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP,
BUT LATER WENT TO DALLAS TOWNSHIP, AND THERE THE FATHER CARRIED ON OPERATIONS FOR FOURTEEN
YEARS, OR UNTIL HIS DEATH, IN 1897.
BOUGHT UP TO THE WORK OF THE HOME FARM, ERVIN ADE RECEIVED HIS EARLY EDUCATION IN THE
DISTRICT SCHOOLS OF HUNTINGTON COUNTY, AND LATER ATTENDED THE HIGH SCHOOLS AT LANCASTER
AND ANDREWS. UPON COMPLETING HIS STUDIES HE TOOK UP THE CARPENTER'S TRADE, AT WHICH
HE SPENT FOUR YEARS, AND DURING THAT TIME ALSO SPENT SOMETIME IN ATTENDING THE NIGHT
SCHOOL AT ANDREWS. IN JULY, 1902, HE RECEIVED HIS GRADUATION DIPLOMA FROM THE NATIONAL
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, IN MECHIANCIAL DRAWING AND GRAUGHTING,
AND AFTER SPENDING ANOTHER SHORT PERIOD AT THE TRADE OF CARPENTER CAME TO HUNTINGTON AND
FORMED A PARTNERSHIP WITH HIS BROTHER, UNDER THE FIRM STYLE OF ADE BROTHERS, HAVING SEEN
THE POSSIBILITIES OFFERED IN THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS IN THIS CITY. WHILE SUCCESSFULLY
OPERATING HIS RESTAURANT BUSINESS, MR. ADE HAS ALSO DEVOTED A PART OF HIS ATTENTION TO
REAL ESTATE MATTERS, AND IN THIS HAS MET WITH AN EQUAL SHARE OF SUCCESS. HE IS AT THIS
TIME THE OWNER OF 240 ACRES!
OF VALUABLE FARMING LAND IN MIDLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN, DEVOTED TO THE GROWING OF
POTATOES, BEANS, CABBAGES AND OATS, AND WHILE THIS IS CONDUCTED UNDER A MANAGER THE LATTER
IS DIRECTLY UNDER MR. ADE'S SUPERVISION. ON POLITICS MR. ADE IS A PRONOUNCED
DEMOCRAT, ALWAYS VOTES THE STRAIGHT TICKET, AND IN THE YEAR OF 1909 HE WAS ELECTED TO
PUBLICE OFFICE AS COUNCILMAN T LARGE FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS, AND HE HAS WORKED ACTIVELY
IN THE INTERESTS OF HIS FRIENDS. HE IS HEARTILY IN SYMPATHY WITH THE PURPOSES AND
TEACHINGS OF THE VARIOUS FRATERNAL ORDERS, AND AT THIS TIME IS A MEMBER OF THE LOCATL
LODGES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, THE BENEVOLENTAND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, THE IMPROVED
ORDER OF RED MEN AND THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE. HIS BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CONNECTIONS HAVE
BROUGHT TO HIM A WIDE ACQUAINTANCE AND HE HAS THE FAVORABLE REGARD OF THE GREAT MAJORITY
OF THOSE WITH WHOME HE AS COME IN CONTACT.
IN 1907 MR. ADE WAS MARRIED TO MISS ERMA STETZEL, THE ESTIMABLE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES AND
CHRISTENA (EGGMAN) STETZEL, AND TO THIS UNION THERE HAVE BEEN BORN FOUR INTERESTING AND
ATTRACTIVE CHILDREN: THYRA V., RAY, ROSEMOND V. AND JUNE E. MR. AND MRS ADE ARE COSISTENT
MEMBERS OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH. THEIR PLEASANT HOME IS LOCATED AT 248 OAK ST.
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