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1884
- (Sept. 2) Edward Edson Lee Born in Meriden, Illinois
1887 - Edward and mother move to Beloit, Wisconsin
1908 - (Oct. 16) "My Southern Violet" sheet music published
1909 - (Nov.) Taft elected president
1909 - (Nov. 24) Edward marries Gladys Eveline Tuttle
1909 - (Dec. 15) "Only A Dog" short story published in "Beloit Daily
News"
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1913 - (Sept. 1) Eugene "Beanie" Lee born to Edward and Gladys
1914 - World War I begins
1915 - (Spring) Edward moves to Detroit to join Burroughs Adding
Machine Company
1917- (Spring) Edward moves to Shelby, Ohio to join Autocall Company
1919 - (Jan. 1) Typed plot for "The Cruise of the Sally Ann"
1920 - (Apr.) "The Cruise of the Sally Ann" published in Shelby
Daily Globe
1922 - (Sept. 15) First book "Andy Blake in Advertising" published
by Appleton
1924 - May 27) "Jerry Todd and the Whispering Mummy" published by
Grosset & Dunlap
1933 - US in depth of economic depression
1937 - (Aug. 22) Eugene marries Elizabeth Gates in Cambridge, Wisconsin
1939 - World War II begins
1939 - (Mar. 9) Twin sons, Thomas and Eugene, Jr., born to Eugene
and Elizabeth
1940 - Last book published (Jerry Todd's Cuckoo Camp)
1944 - (Sept. 28) Edward dies in Beloit, Wisconsin
1970 - (Mar. 16) Edward's wife Gladys dies in Janesville, Wisconsin
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