I've been trying to gather some biographical information on Eddie King, the man who played a somewhat controversial role in Bix's life, at least as it was preserved on record. Yet my efforts to locate him in Ancestry.com documents haven't been very successful, partly because his name is so very common and because I don't know if he lived primarily in NY or NJ at the time these data were gathered.
The EDVR indicates that he participated in Victor sessions as early as September 1911, so he surely couldn't have been born later than about the early 1890s. Do we know what his wife's name was (if he had one) or anything else about his early life?