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Among the most notable of his creations are the jungle hero Tarzan , the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter and the fictional landmass within Earth known as Pellucidar. Burroughs' California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles. Burroughs was born on September 1, in Chicago he later lived for many years in the suburb of Oak Park , the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs — , a businessman and Civil War veteran, and his wife, Mary Evaline Zieger Burroughs — His middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Coleman Rice Burroughs He once remarked, "I can trace my ancestry back to Deacon Edmund Rice. Many of his ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Some of his ancestors settled in Virginia during the colonial period, and Burroughs often emphasized his connection with that side of his family, seeing it as romantic and warlike, [5] [3] and, in fact, could have counted among his close cousins no less than seven signers of the U.