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Fred Van Eps

banjo · 1878–1960 · Somerville

A banjoist born in New Jersey, hired in 1897 by Edison's National Phonograph Company, he later recorded for Columbia (1904) and then Victor (1910). He also made a banjo under his own name, sold until about 1930.

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