EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS MILLENNIUM
CALENDAR©
Compiled by Bill Hillman
JULY 2000
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1889: George & Harry graduate
from Yale. Return to Chicago to work in father's American Battery Co. Harry
develops lung problems from battery fumes.
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1891: Ed's father sends him
to work on his brothers' ranch. The greenhorn experiences many adventures
in the "wild west"
1899: Works as treasurer of American
Battery Company (1899-1903)
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1895: Experiences many adventures
while working as bill collector for Knickerbocker Ice Company in Grand
Crossing, Ill.
1934: ERB, Dearholt & 2 other investors, form Burroughs-Tarzan
Enterprises to produce Tarzan pictures. Office is located at 8476 Sunset
Blvd. Plans made to film a Tarzan movie in Guatemala
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1898: Sweetser & partners Burroughs
& Sparks load 14 car loads of cattle at American Falls & pass Pocatello
on way to Omaha
1936: Ed travels to Chicago & NY to seek outlets for
BTP films
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1899: Contributes poems to
the Pocatello Tribune: The
Black Man's Burden - a parody of Kipling's The White Man's
Burden
1908: Ed & Dentzer start advertising agency for
correspondence course preparing students in salesmanship. It failed.
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1909: Accepts a position as
office manager for selling Alcola "a cure for alcoholism." Turns
down offer to return to Sears. Starts a business with Stace to train salesmen
& sell products for them.
1911: Uses free time at office to start writing PM.
35-yr-old Ed writes down his daydreams on the backs of old letterheads
of previously failed businesses.
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1923: Creator of Tarzan Speaks
appears in LA Sunday Times
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1928: Joan Burroughs &
James Pierce are engaged
1941: Leaves hospital prematurely after treatment with
sulfathhiozal. Recurrence of the illness forces him to return later. Doctor
suggests he start drinking again - results are not satisfactory.
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1890: Idaho becomes a state
1940: July 4 - Flo stung on heel by a centipede at beach
fireworks celebration
1947: Buys RCA TV. First TV show he sees is a LA-Hollywood
baseball game from Wrigley Field. Much time watching boxing, wrestling
& baseball
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1895: Offered position of asst
commandant at MMA - an office which included the duties of cavalry &
gatling gun instructor, tactical officer, Foot-Ball/ Baseball manager &
geology prof. Uses this knowledge in future stories about the prehistoric
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1927: Unhappy over the Methuen's
deletions & alterations of his text. He advises them to use the full
text of the McClurg edition for their upcoming WC release
1945: Tanker Like Accident About to Happen News
Bulletin appears in the Honolulu Advertiser
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1925: Influenced by the Scopes Trial,
Ed writes a pro-evolution article for the newspapers of the Int. Press
Bureau & Universal Service
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1914: Returns from a 10-day
stay at the Hulbert family farm at Coldwater, Mich
1915: Starts Beyond
Thirty at Hulbert family farm - Coldwater, Mich, & finishes
at Oak Park (Aug 10) - rejected by Davis
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1930: Tarzan and the
Leopard Men started. Blue Book buy for $5,000
1932: Article Edgar
Rice Burroughs Tells All
appears in Script magazine. An hilarious autobiography filled with
fictional events
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1914: Changes Harris to Farris
in The
Girl from Harris's
1940: Letter to brother George, Ed again expresses
his dislike for FDR and his hope that Willkie will win the impending election
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1933: Beset with pressures
of work and a growing rift in his marriage to Emma, Ed takes a solo vacation
to Springerville in the Arizona White Mountains. Most of the marriage problems
involve Emma's over-dependence on alcohol
1942: Don't Let 'em Kid You, Joe News Bulletin
appears in Honolulu Advertiser
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1912: Starts sequel to
Under
the Moons of Mars.
1913: Starts Girl
from Harris's in Chicago, finishes in San Diego
1927: Move offices to new store & three-office complex
on Ventura Boulevard (present ERB Tarzana
offices)
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1945: Returns to Honolulu, having
travelled 5,000 miles by air & 11,000 miles by ship
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1899: Ed, now in New York,
writes Colonel Rogers again requesting help in obtaining a commission.
Again no success
1934: Upset over sons' attitudes toward his marriage split
Ed phones Hulbert in Chicago, asking him to take the first plane home
1940: Writes Strange Adv. of Mr. Dinwiddie
as
John Tyler McCulloch unpub
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1929: Telegrams Elser for assistance
in finding a job as war correspondent in Russo-Chinese conflict. Incredulous
Elser replies he can offer no assistance
1939: Starts Tarzan and the Champion of New
Tarzan Series
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1934: Anxious to restore closeness
with his sons and to present his side in the marriage split, Ed meets with
the boys to bring about a reconciliation
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1917: Receives appointment
in the reserves: Captain, Company A, Second Infantry
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1928: Community officially
approves the name Tarzana
1940: Short biography of ERB appears in Bob Davis'
NY Sun column. Davis, retired from Munsey's & now living at Kailua,
had interviewed Ed after a chance meeting on the island
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1927: McClurg reject Oakdale
Affair despite its having been made into a movie: The
Warning
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1940: Maintains daily
writing schedule but has regular evening social affairs with friends -
actors John Halliday & Janet Gaynor etc.Evenings of drinks followed
by bridge. Iinner agonies, guilt & fears & alcohol, are creating
marriage tensions. Friends are starting to note that the two appear ill-mated
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1914: Starts CM
1923: Golden Gate Oil Co. drills to 1,300 feet
in their search for oil on Tarzana. Only traces were found. Abandoned lease
in fall of 1926
1941: Star Bulletin reports Flo has filed for divorce.
Legal matters are delegated to Rothmund
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1937: Starts CV
- rejected by slicks
1940: Starts John Carter and the Pits of Horz -
first of series for new book
1945: July 23 -
Experiences Angina Pectoris pain
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1932: Expresses his pleasure
to J. C. Powell, Librarian Emeritus of the U of C at Berkley who has welcomed
him into the honoured circle of authors of the Golden State
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1930: Pleased with Miss Bischoff
editing job, Ed sends her
Dancing Girl of the Leper King for correction.
He later also sends three installments of Tarzan and the Leopard Men
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1929: Sends ironic rebuff
to Tarzana branch of the LA Public Library which has requested
copies of his books. He points out that their main library has banned his
books
1934: Ed, Flo, kids & Mrs. Gilbert take a vacation
in Big Basin at Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Return home to a whirl of
social affairs
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1913: Visits Metcalf in NY
1939: July 29 Saturday Evening
Post runs a biography on ERB. It emphasizes the importance of daydreams
for Ed's writing inspiration
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1913: Leaves NY for home
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1919: John A. Shea is hired
as secretary
1939: Scientists Revolt (1922 Beware)
appears in Fantastic Adventures as SF story
1941: Goddess of Fire in Fantastic
Adventures $405.60
1941: Writes Uncle Miner & Other Relatives
in & out of hospitals - Unpublished
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1920: Tarzana
major renovations: central heating, 3-car garage, servants rooms, darkroom,
workshop, study that doubled as a home school room. Ballroom/movie theatre/playroom,
projection booth, swimming pool, golf course, lion and monkey cages, riding
trails, hen house, hog pen, dairy barn & horse stalls, maintenance
etc
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1924: Grand opening of El Caballero
Country Club of which Ed is managing director. Earlier Ed had sold
the main house & 120 acres of Tarzana
Ranch to the promoters of the new club
1935: Ashton Dearholt & Ula Holt are married
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1926: Family moves from 674
South New Hampshire, LA, back to Tarzana
at 5245 (5046) Mecca Ave where Ed has built a cottage on Lot 76 of his
tract 5475. He also moves his office to 5255 (5135) Avenida Oriente in
Tarzana
1927: Master Mind of Mars appears in Amazing
Stories Annual
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1927: Tarzan, Lord of
the Jungle is rejected by slicks
1932: Tarzan
for President
article appears in Blue Book
1934: Hulbert makes a tour of eastern cities, making contacts
with radio stations & advertisers. Neebe turns down a offer to work
in sales & promotion.
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WEBJED:
BILL HILLMAN .