Marks, Edward B.

Edward B. Marks Music publisher 1865; 1945 [full dates unknown]). Marks was a pioneer in the field. He was a young notions salesman who liked to write lyrics. He went to see Frank Harding, whose father had started a music publishing business in 1860 at 229 The Bowery, which Frank had taken over at the same location in 1879. Harding put Marks in touch with William Loraine, a part-time hack composer and full-time lush. Harding published the result of their collaboration (“December and May”) in…