Tewksbury, George E.

Tewksbury, George E. Recording industry executive. He was president of the Kansas Phonograph Co. in 1890, and general manager in 1892–1893. In 1894–1895 he managed the U-S Phonograph Co., Newark, New Jersey. Tewksbury held a basic coin-op patent, U.S. #523,556 (filed 13 Dec 1893; granted 24 July 1894). He became general sales agent for the National Phonograph Co., Thomas Edison’s organization (1896–1897), but had a falling out with Edison and died shortly after, afflicted with a form of…