George Tyler BURROUGHS

Birth:
13 Oct 1833
Warren, Worcester, Massachusetts
Death:
15 Feb 1913
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial:
18 Feb 1913
Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Marriage:
23 Feb 1863
Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa
Sources:
Family Records
Death Certificate, of George Tyler Burroughs
Civil War Pension Application, Served as a Private in Company G, 71st NY Volunteers
Ancestry of George Earle Burroughs - by Karen Kravcov Malcolm, www.johncolemanburroughs.com
Internet IGI, May 2008
Pedigree Resource File
Ancestral File - Version 4.19 - nil
1880 Census - Chicago, Cook, IL, Dist 124
1900 Census - Dist 331, Chicago, Cook, IL
Notes:
                   Civil War Veteran
OCCUPATION: 1880 - Distiller
Research and historical information included in notes

Discharged from Civil War Service on 30 July 1861 in New York

c.  George Tyler Burroughs, Sr. , born Oct. 13, 1833, Warren, MA in a house owned by his father that was built in 1741.  He was six feet tall (Tarzan Forever, p. 28).  A Major in the Civil War (Union), he enlisted in New York infantry in 1861 and became a lieutenant and quartermaster.  He was discharged a brevet major in 1865. (Tarzan Forever)   According to the American Civil War Soldiers database on www.Ancestry.com, he was born Oct. 13, 1833; his service record:  Enlisted as a Private on May 3, 1861 at the age of 27.  He enlisted in 71st Infantry SM Regiment New York (Company G).  Mustered out on July 31, 1861.  Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on Nov. 13, 1861 (1st Lieutenant and Quartermaster as of 43rd NY Inf.).  Commission in Company S, 43rd Infantry Regiment New York on Dec. 16, 1861.  Promoted to Full Captain on April 8, 1863 (Capt. and Commissary of Subsistence).  Discharged for promotion on April 8, 1863.  Commission in Commissary Dept. Reg VO on April 8, 1863.  Resigned on June 22, 1865.  Promoted to Brevet Major on June 24, 1865.  Sources NY:  Report of the Adjutant General (NY Roster), 1894-1906; Commander of Illinois MOLLUS:  Deceased Companions (ILMOLLUS), 1923; Heitman:  Register of United States Army 1789-1903, (Heitman), 1994.  He married Mary Evaline Zieger on Feb. 23, 1863 in Iowa City, IA (born Nov. 10, 1840, IA [IN per most Censuses], the daughter of Josiah Zieger (1812 (PA)-1889) & Mary Coleman Zieger (1816-1889), he a Pennsylvania Dutch man born in OH (PA per 1900 Census), she born in IN (OH).  Mary was the daughter of John Coleman, an 18th century Virginia settler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs named his second son after him.  Just prior to their marriage, George worked in the woolen department of a large importing house in New York: Bliss, Wheelock and Kelley (Memoirs of a War Bride).  They moved to Portland, Maine, where he ran a furniture business, then they moved to Chicago, IL in 1868. In the 1870 Census, the family lived in Chicago, Ward 13, Cook Co., IL:  George T., age 35, a distiller, with a home valued at $40,000, personalty at $2000, born in MA; Mary E, wife, age 29, keeping house, born in IN, George T., Jr., born in ME, age 4, Henry S., age 2, born in ME, Emma Nixe, a white domestic servant from Norway, age 30, Mina Lasse, age 22, a female domestic servant from Norway, Thomas Crosby, 24, a domestic servant, born in MA, Henry R. Burroughs, age 33, retired, with a value of $20,000, born in MA, Abner T., age 31, retired, born in MA, Abner T. age 66, retired, with a value of $10,000, born in MA, and Mary R. age 68, at home.   In the 1880 Census, the family was living in Chicago, Cook County, IL, George D. Burroughs, age 46, MA (parents:  MA/MA), distiller, wife, Mary E., 39, IN, keeping house (parents:  OH/IN), and children:  George D. 13, ME, Henry S., 12, ME,  Frank C., 8, IL, Edgar R., 5, IL, and A.F. Burroughs, brother, 42, MA, livery stable, Mary Dieger [Zieger]mother, 63, IN, Margaret Flynn, other, 19, WI, servant, Mary OConnor, other, 24, Ireland, servant, Edward Weldon, other, 21, IL, coachman.  George was a whiskey distiller and owned Burroughs Phoenix Distillery, which was  destroyed by fire in 1885 and the property sold in 1923.  He owned the American Battery Company, Chicago, IL.  In 1888-1890, their address was 646 Washington St., Chicago, IL (1888-1892 Chicago Voters List - Ancestry.com.)  In the 1900 Census, they were living in Chicago, District 331, Ward 12, at 646 Washington Blvd., George T., age 66, owner of Phoenix Battery Co., Mary E., age 59 (6/4 children) (father born in PA, mother in IN), married 36 years, with Anna Trainor, a servant age 33.  In the 1910 Census, he was living with his brother-in-law, Charles S. McEntee and Caroline McEntee, in Chicago, Ward 21, Dist. 912 at 95 East Elm Street.  He had the first car in Chicago using his battery.  Involved in political, civic and social affairs.  He died Feb. 15, 1913, Chicago, IL, aged 79 years, 4 months, 2 days.  Mary wrote Memoirs of a War Bride.  Mary died April 5, 1920, Tarzana, CA of kidney disease, aged 79 y
ears, 4 months, 26 days.
                  
Mary Evaline ZIEGER
Birth:
10 Nov 1840
Vermillion, Indiana
Death:
5 Apr 1920
Tarzana, Los Angeles, California
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
31 Aug 1866
Portland, Cumberland, Maine
Death:
8 Jun 1944
Marr:
10 Jan 1900
 
2
Birth:
23 May 1868
Portland, Cumberland, Maine
Death:
21 Jan 1940
Coldwater, Branch, Michigan
Marr:
30 Dec 1891
Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
Notes:
                   NAME: Henry/Harry
Historical and family information included in notes
OCCUPATION: 1900 - Miner, 1930 - Assistant Treasurer

ii.  Henry (Harry) Studley Burroughs, born May 23, 1868, Portland, ME.  Graduated from engineering school at Yale University in 1889.  He married Ella (Nellie) Frances Oldham on December 30, 1891, Louisiana (Maryland per Studleys 1930 Census) (She was born July 31, 1868; killed in car accident near Ann Arbor, Michigan March 30, 1933).  In the 1930 Census, they were living in Chicago, District 1846, 1335 Birchwood Ave., in a rental, both age 61, and married 23 years.  Ellas parents were born in LA/IL.  Henry was an Assistant Treasurer in Insurance and was not a veteran.  (They owned a radio.)  He died Jan. 21, 1940, Quincy, Michigan, of sclerosis of the spine.  Chi Phi Fraternity.
                  
3
Birth:
14 May 1872
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death:
19 Mar 1930
New Trier, Cook, Illinois
Marr:
30 Dec 1891
 
Notes:
                   Historical and family information included in notes

iii.  Frank Coleman Burroughs, born May 14, 1872, Chicago, IL.  He married Grace Stuart Moss on Jan. 24, 1900 (She was born Sept. 21, 1873, Chicago).  He died March 18, 1930, Wilmette (New Trier Township), Cook Co., IL, aged 57 years, 10 months, 4 days.  He Owned the Camplain-Yardley Co., a stationery manufacturing company, Chicago, IL and Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company in Stanley Basin, ID (failed in 1904).  In the 1930 Census taken April 14, 1930 in New Trier Township, Wilmette Village, Greenleaf Div., Cook Co., IL, Distr. 2211, with the residence of 1204 Forest, his name is listed, but in the far right margin died is indicated:  F. Coleman Burroughs, Head, owned home, $18,000 home value, age 58, married at 27, born IL (parents:  MA/IN), occupation:  None; wife, Grace, age 56, married at 25, born in IL (parents: Canada/CT), no occupation, with daughter Katherine, age 20, single, IL a clerk for a gas utility, and mother-in-law, Leonora Moss, age 87, widow, born in CT of CT born parents.
	Children:
	i.	Grace Stuart Burroughs, born Oct. 6, 1904, Chicago.  She married Robert Boyd-Robertson (born Nov. 30, 1900).
		Children:
		i.  Coleman Boyd-Robertson, born June 30, 1928.
		ii.  Grace Stuart Boyd-Robertson, born Sept. 18, 1931.

	ii.	Marjorie Burroughs, born Aug. 15, 1908, Chicago, IL; died June 21, 1909, aged 10 months, 6 days, Chicago.
	iii.	Kathryn/Katherine Moss Burroughs, born Sept. 4, 1909, Chicago.
                  
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Arthur McCulloch BURROUGHS
Birth:
25 Feb 1874
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death:
9 Mar 1874
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   iv.  Arthur McCulloch (McCullough) Burroughs.  Born February 25, 1874 & died March 9, 1874, Chicago, IL (lived only 12 days).
                  
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Birth:
1 Sep 1875
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death:
19 Mar 1950
Tarzana, Los Angeles, California
Notes:
                   v.  Edgar Rice Burroughs, born Sep. 1, 1875, Chicago, IL  Married 1)  Emma Centennia Hulbert (born Jan. 1, 1876, Chicago, divorced 1934; died Nov. 5 (10), 1944 - depression/alcoholism, aged 68 years, 10 months, 9 days) on Jan. 31, 1900; 2)  Florence Ashton Dearholt on April 4, 1935, Las Vegas, NV (divorced 1941).  Author of the Tarzan series and creator of the town ,Tarzana, CA. The godfather of American/modern science fiction.  He died March 19, 1950 (angina, arteriosclerosis and Parkinsons Syndrome (paralysis agitans)), Encino, CA, aged 74 years, 6 months, 18 days.  He was cremated at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles, CA.  In the 1900 Census, he was living in Chicago, Ward 13, West Town, Enum. Dist. 412 at 194 Park Avenue, at his mother-in-laws house:  Emma Hurlbert (head), born July 1860, age 49, a widow, born in NY (MA/NY) who owned her house free of mortgage (5/4 children), Edgar R. Burroughs (son-in-law), , born Jan. 1876, IL (England/England), age 24, married less than 1 year, an electrician, with wife, Emma C., born July 1876, IL (MA/NY), age 23, Julia Ann Drake, Emma (Sr.)s mother, born May 1823, age 77, a widow, born in NY (CT/CT), Warren Nicols, son-in-law, 30, IL, a lawyer, and his wife, Jessie D. Nicols, age 29, IL, married 1 year with no children, along with the following servants:  Mathau Jackson, a cook, age 50, Jennie Lawson, a servant girl, age 24.   In the 1910 Census, Edgar R. Burroughs was living in Chicago, 20th Ward, Distr. 865, at 1957 Washington Blvd., in a rental, age 34, married 10 years, the manager of a mail order house, with wife and chidlren, Emma C., age 34 (2/2 children), Joan, age 2, IL and Hulbert, age 9/12 mos. IL.  Edgar Rice Burroughs WWI Draft Registration Card lists him in Oak Park, IL, age 43, born Sept. 1, 1875, a writer working for himself in Oak Park, with wife, Emma Hulburt Burroughs.  He is listed as tall and stout with brown hair and eyes.  In the 1920 Census, Edgar Rice Burroughs was living on a farm in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Enum. Dist. 131, Precinct 668, on Ventura Road, age 44, IL a fiction writer, general farm, with wife, Emma H., age 44, IL, Joan, daughter, 12, IL, Hulbert, son, 10, IL, and John C., son, 6, IL, along with the following staff:  John A.G. Shea, Secretary, business manager ranch, age 26, born in IN, Matilda Eisenschmidt, 38, maid, born in Russia, Hulda J. Erickson, 44, hired woman/cook, born in Sweden, David N. Ohrland, hired man, chauffeur, age 33, born in Sweden, and Gerrit Roest, hired man, age 30, gardner, born in Holland.  In the 1930 Census, he was living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Dist. 1598, Enum. Dist. 19,  in a rental on Mecca Street, age 54, married at 24, born in IL (MA/IN), President, Literature; with wife, Emma H., age 54, married at 24, IL (NY/NY), Vice President, Literature; with sons Hulbert, 20, single, IL, no occupation; and John C., son age 17, IL, no occupation, with the following staff (all white and married):  Carl G. Dickel, age 34, cook, born in Berlin, Germany, and his wife, Bernice, domestic servat, age 23, Jules C. Barnes, a chauffeur, age 27, and Robert Helm, a hostler, age 41.

		Children:
	a.  Joan Burroughs, born Jan. 12, 1908, Chicago, IL.  Died Dec. 31, 1972.  She married James H. Pierce (born Aug. 8, 1899 (1900); died at 83 on Nov. 12, 1983, the Tarzan of the silent screen and radio; football coach at Uof A).
	Children:

	i.  Joanne Burroughs Pierce (Mrs. Charles Anselmo, Jr.), born Dec. 24, 1929, Hollywood, CA.
		ii.  James Michael Pierce, born Aug. 13, 1934.
	b.  Hulbert (Hully) Burroughs, born Aug. 12, 1909, Chicago.  Combat photographer.  Captain in the army.  He married Marian (Marion) Thrasher (born Feb. 16, 1918).  He died Aug. 8, 1991 of a heart attack.
	c.  John (Jack) Coleman Burroughs, born Feb. 28, 1913, Chicago.  He married Jane Ralston (born Dec. 8, 1913-2002) on Dec. 12, 1936.  Jack contracted Parkinsons Syndrome in 1961 and died on Feb. 22, 1979.
	Children:
		i.  John Ralston Burroughs, born on June 22, 1942.
		ii.  Danton Burroughs, born June 21, 1944.
		iii.  Dian Burroughs, born June 17, 1948.  

	vi.  Charles Stuart Burroughs.  Born August 15  1881, Chicago, IL.  He died 5 months later, Jan. 18, 1882.  Named after Caroline Burroughss husband, apparently.
                  
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Charles Stuart BURROUGHS
Birth:
15 Aug 1881
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death:
18 Jan 1882
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
 
Marr:
 
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George Tyler Burroughs - Mary Evaline Zieger

George Tyler Burroughs was born at Warren, Worcester, Massachusetts 13 Oct 1833. His parents were Abner Tyler Burroughs and Mary Coleman Rice.

He married Mary Evaline Zieger 23 Feb 1863 at Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa . Mary Evaline Zieger was born at Vermillion, Indiana 10 Nov 1840 daughter of Josiah Zieger and Mary Coleman .

They were the parents of 6 children:
George Tyler Burroughs, Jr born 31 Aug 1866.
Henry Studley Burroughs born 23 May 1868.
Frank Coleman Burroughs born 14 May 1872.
Arthur McCulloch Burroughs born 25 Feb 1874.
Edgar Rice Burroughs born 1 Sep 1875.
Charles Stuart Burroughs born 15 Aug 1881.

George Tyler Burroughs died 15 Feb 1913 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois .

Mary Evaline Zieger died 5 Apr 1920 at Tarzana, Los Angeles, California .