Eugene F. McDonald

Eugene F. McDonald founded Zenith Radio in 1921, a major American radio and electronics manufacturer for most of the twentieth century.

Eugene F. McDonald Jr. was born March 11, 1886 in Syracuse, New York, the son of Frazier McDonald and Betty May Thompson McDonald. He earned his first money while a schoolboy by reading electric meters. School did not appeal to McDonald, and at the end of his sophomore year in high school he left school to take a factory job with the Franklin Automobile Company.

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