LIFE

The dubbing machine, invented by Frank Capps, a Columbia employee still in the phonograph game, was a jealously guarded secret. But we just had to speed up production if we were to make any real money out of the Edisonia, Ltd., business; so Vic [Emerson] put his head together with old Carson [no doubt Charles W. Carson is meant], his handy man, and Russell Hunting, his assistant. ........... It wasn't long before they had independently worked out another dubbing-process. Passing our laboratory late one song-plugging night, I saw a light in the loft. Curiosity drew me up the stairs.
There were the three allies [Emerson, Carson and Hunting] engaged in the big experiment.
They had exactly balanced two of the wax cylinders, so that a pressure in the center caused a ball or stylus to impress both simultaneously. It was now possible to make fourteen records at a round. A big advance!

(from: They all sang: from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée - as told to Abbott J. Liebling by Edward B. Marks. New York: Viking Press, 1935)

1900 CENSUS (Newark, Essex, NJ):
Victor EMERSON ( y)
Kittie EMERSON ( y)
- (Victor) Hugo ( y)
- Adelbert ( y)
- Edna ( y)

1920 CENSUS:
Victor EMERSON ( y) mechanic phonograph

1930 CENSUS:
Victor EMERSON ( y) phonograph business
- Victor Jr. (17y)
- Edna (15y)

"THE COLUMBIA DELEGATION"
Edward D. EASTON (48y) lawyer
final destination: Arcola, NJ
+ Mortimer EASTON (16y)
+ Florence EASTON (14y)
+ Marion DORIAN (45y) Columbia Phonograph
last residence: Paris & London
final destination: Washington
+ Thomas Wood (= Hood) MACDONALD (45y) manager
+ Victor H. EMERSON (38y) expert
final destination: Newark
SS "KAISER WILHELM II"
dep.: 27 July 1904, Southampton
arr.: 1 Aug 1904, New York

At the time of the 1880 Census the family was living in San Francisco, CA
1891-1893 General Manager NEW JERSEY PHONOGRAPH COMPANY (source website: Mr. Conyngton: I understand that Mr. Edison could furnish ...)
joined in 1896 COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
recording director COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, New York studio
In May 1915 founded EMERSON PHONOGRAPH COMPANY