Edgar and Emma had two children by this time. He began to write fiction by 1911 and was a wholesaler of a pencil-sharpener and was on low wages for several years. He left his job in the year 1904 and then worked here and there in Idaho first and then Chicago. Emma Hulbert was his childhood sweetheart and they got married in the month of January in 1900. Then, in 1899 he found some work at the firm of his father. He went to Idaho and worked there for some time on a ranch. In 1897, he was discharged from his service as a soldier as he was diagnosed with a heart related problem and was not eligible to serve.Д®dgar Rice Burroughs went on to do many other jobs after being discharged from his service. Later he enlisted in Fort Grant of the Arizona Territory as a soldier in the 7th U.S.

He graduated in the 1875, but failed the United States Military AcademyвЂ™s exam in West Point. Places that he has attended are the Michigan Military Academy and Philips Academy in Massachusetts. Edgar took his education in many schools around the area and when in 1891, the influenza epidemic hit Chicago he went to stay at his brotherвЂ™s place for almost half a year. His ancestors took part in the American Revolution and other ancestors during the early colonial period settled in Virginia. His family from the Burroughs side also came around the same time to Massachusetts. He is the descendant of Edmund Rice, who during the early colonial time moved to Massachusetts and was the English Puritans. All his ancestors are mostly English and they have resided in North America since the first few colonies came here. Mary Rice Burroughs was his paternal grandmother and hence his middle includes her name. His father, Major George Tyler Burroughs was a Civil war veteran and owned a business and his mother was Mary Evaline and he was their fourth son. His genres included literature & fiction as well as science fiction and fantasy. He was famous for his notable works of Tarzan, the jungle hero and John Carter, the hero who takes an adventure on Mars. An American author, Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in the city of Chicago, the state of Illinois in the United States on 1st September, 1875.

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