Location: 518 West Franklin Street, Elkhart. (Elkhart County, Indiana)
Erected 1998 Indiana Historical Bureau, Elkhart County Historical Society, and Elkhart County Community Foundation.
ID# : 20.1998.2
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Born in Ohio 1842; family moved to Kosciusko County, Indiana 1846. Bierce lived and worked in Elkhart 1860-1861. Union officer wounded in Civil War. Moved to California 1866; became nationally prominent as journalist, short story writer, and critic. Assumed dead, circa 1914, on a trip to Mexico. This property purchased 1870 by his parents.
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