Brothers Edward Elsmore DeHaven (1899-1983) and Thomas Virgil DeHaven (1903-1995) worked for RCA Victor Company, Inc. Edward DeHaven worked in Denver, Colorado, where he operated RCA equipment, showing sound films to various community, educational, and church groups across the city. It is unclear whether he was employed directly by the company or was a distributor or dealer.

Thomas DeHaven (referred to in the records as T.V.) was employed in the Advertising Department. He may have been based in the Ohio area. In 1935, he operated a "Magic Brain" Radio Car, which traveled the country as a fleet of three to RCA distributors and dealers to help advertise RCA products and services on a one-year tour.

The brothers were born in Colorado to Eliza Etta Alford (1871-1927) and Louis Edward DeHaven (1866-1952). Edward DeHaven married Marcia Onetta Clore (1907-2008) in 1935; The couple had three children. Thomas DeHaven married Florence Adell Pilbrow (1904-1989) in 1929; the couple had one child.

RCA Victor Company was an American electronics company. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the Victor Talking Machine Company merged in 1929 becoming the RCA Victor Company in 1930. This merger allowed RCA to consolidate the research, engineering, manufacturing, and sales of RCA products.

For over fifty years the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. The company can trace its beginnings bnck to the Victor Talking Machine Company which was incorporated in New Jersey of October 3, 1901, by Eldridge Reeves Johnson (1867-1945). Johnson was a machinist who had been a subcontractor for Emile Berliner's (1851-1929) Berliner Gramophone Company.

It quickly became both the leading U.S. manufacturer of phonographs, the famous "Victrola" introduced in 1906, and the recorder and manufacturer of phonograph records by many of the leading musical artists of the day. However, during the 1920s, radio eclipsed the phonograph as a means of bringing popular entertainment into the home, and on March 15, 1929, the Radio Corporation of America bought control of the Victor Talking Machine Company. The Victor plants in Camden, New Jersey, and Oakland, California, were reorganized as the RCA Victor Company, Inc. at the end of 1929.

The company became the RCA Victor Divison of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., in 1934 and of the Radio Corporation of America in 1942. Activities at the Camden Plant, later successively operated by the General Electric Company (which bought RCA in 1986) and the Martin Marietta Corporation, ended in 1993.