EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS MILLENNIUM
CALENDAR©
Compiled by Bill Hillman
JUNE 2000
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1881: Ed & brothers become friends with 4 Hulbert
sisters - Leila, Julia, Jessie & Emma Centennia - 194 Park
Ave
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1887: Falls while riding his bike and hits his head.
He is driven home in a daze. He is left with a scar on his head
1895: Quarterback ERB placed on the Champion Prep School
Team of the West, 1894
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1895: Graduates from MMA & gives Address
to the 1894 Graduating Class
1924: Move to 544 South Gramercy Place, LA
1932: Tarzan
Theme article appears in Writer's Digest
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1932: Sends criticisms to new
radio show producer on Tarzan portrayal
1939: Florence undergoes major surgery
1939: Plans for a 15 min radio show - Quiet,
Please! on objections to noise - quiet, (rejected)
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1927: Idea for the Tarzan
strip is conceived. Ed later suggests that a Tarzan
parody strip also be created
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1928: Munsey, as a goodwill gesture, relinquishes
serial rights to 4 of Ed's stories
1941: Old bladder obstruction problems are returning
1944: Another son, Danton, is born to Jack and Jane
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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1913: Unsuccessful in his $25
dollar offer to buy N.C. Wyeth's cover painting of RT
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1932: Elmo Lincoln complains to Ed that MGM's portrayal
of Tarzan is without dignity
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1913: Submits Prince of Helium WM to
All-Story
1925: TA published in over 20 languages - huge
royalty cheques
1925: Writes Scopes trial report for the Int. Press Bureau
& Universal Service
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1922: Starts MMa on Ediphone
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1914: AEC starts in Evening World
1929: Contacts Bray about the possibility of repurchasing
all of his book rights
1944: Brother George dies at Fontana, CA
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1930: Tarzan and the Man Things dictation
finished on 5 wax cylinders
1944: George's close friend, Lew Sweetser, dies. He &
George Burroughs are cremated together
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1915: Novelization of Ben, King of Beasts
scenario is sent to All-Story & New Story (rejected)
1944: Starts FL - rejected by pulps
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12
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13
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14
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15
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16
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17
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1912: Submits TA to
All-Story
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1914: Encouraged by Davis (All-Story) to write sequels
1931: Crime story Calling All Cars is written
- rejected by all slicks
1939: MGM authorizes the use of Weissmuller's name &
image but does little to publicize the Tarzan
Clans
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1895: One of the 104 (out of 118 candidates) who
fail the West Point exam
1942: 12th -
Hulbert receives his commission as 2nd Lieutenant
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1916: Begins Auto Gypsying -37,000-word
diary of a 3-month, 6,000-mile automobile camping trip
1918: Home Guarding for the Liberty Loanspeech
delivered at Flag Day exercises, Oak Park
1924: LTF by McClurg
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1928: (14) Furious over liberties Universal have
taken with JT (Ed sold the rights in 1922) in turning it into the
serial Tarzan the Mighty
1930: 14th That Damned Dude is written - rejected
until 1940
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1937: Creates a book of poetry & illustrations for
Caryl - just as he had done for his niece Evelyn - Li'l B. Her Book
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1914: TA by McClurg
with a Fred J. Arting silhouette of Tarzan. Dedication to Emma
1916: Return
of the Mucker starts in All-Story
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1900: By appointment by Gov. Steunenberg, George
Burroughs represents Idaho at the International Mining Congress in Milwaukee
Wisc.
1937: 400-word article Birth of Tarzan by His
Poppa appears in Script Mag - joshes Thelma Todd
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1921: TTe by McClurg
1923: Starts AM
1929: Plans for Venus series are set back as Planet
of Peril, a Venus novel by Otis
Adelbert Kline is serialized in Argosy All-Story
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1865: Major George Burroughs discharged from
Union Army. George & Mary Evaline settle in Portland, Maine, where
George goes into the furniture business with 2 partners
1942: Birth of baby, John, to Jack & Jane
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1947: (22) - Rothmund expresses doubts to Western
Printing that ERB is ready to write the planned 25-cent pocket book,
My
Life with Tarzan.
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1925: BHB by McClurg
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1940: Writes Bert Weston that Florence is discouraged
with cost-saving measures and condition of the house - rats & scorpions.
Ed relays a chain letter with list of famous names: Sen. Heflin, Bernard
Shaw, Henry Ford, Col. Lindberg, Dorothy Dix, John Barrymore
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1912: Receives $700 payment
for TA
1939: Authorizes a Canadian branch of
the Tarzan Clan in Toronto
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1941: Black Pirates of Barsoom & article:
An Autobio graphical Sketch in Amazing Stories
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1933: Accepted into the Int. Mark Twain Soc., Webster
Groves, Missouri
1947: Dell's
new 52-page Tarzan comic is a great success
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1931: Rothmund writes to United Features again attacking
the childish atmosphere of the Sunday pages
1940: John Carter & Giant of Mars by son Jack
sent to Ziff-Davis (Amazing)
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1917: All-Story starts LL
1930: Article Entertainment
is Fiction's Purpose published in Writer's Digest
1944: Our Japanese Problem in Hawaii
mag - sympathetic to their loyalty to the Islands
1947: Tarzan strips reach all- time low in popularity
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1898: Buys a stationery shop in Pocatello
1917: Bridge & the Oskaloosa Kid completed.
Rejected by Davis
1936: Travels to Chicago & New York to seek outlets
for BTP films
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WEBJED:
BILL HILLMAN .