Edgar Rice Burroughs (Class of 1895) authored the original Tarzan novels

Sketch by Edgar Rice Burroughs, M.M.A. Yearbook, 1892
If you look closely you can see his initials

"... An influenza epidemic in 1891 Chicago caused ERB's parents to send him to Idaho where older brothers Harry and George, with partner Lew Sweetser, owned the Bar Y Ranch in Cassia County. The city boy loved horses and became an expert bronco buster.  -

"That Fall he was sent to Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. Popular, ERB was elected class president but disliked the formal curriculum and ran away. ERB's father, a Union cavalry officer during the American Civil War, believed a military school might benefit his son. At Michigan Military Academy, Orchard Lake (Fall 1892), ERB's commandant was Captain Charles King, a name he later used in his novels. ERB was on the football and cavalry teams and was editor-in-chief and artist for the student newspaper The Adjutant. He remained at Michigan Military Academy after graduating in 1896 as Assistant Commandant; a Professor of Geology, Cavalry and Gatling Gun."

Excerpts from: A Biographical Sketch by
George T. McWhorter
Curator, Burroughs Memorial Collection
Editor Burroughs Bulletin
University of Louisville Library

from ERB's Listserver