Charles Dow

Entrepreneur

Birthday November 6, 1851

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Sterling, CT

DEATH DATE Dec 4, 1902 (51)

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About

Founder of The Wall Street Journal and inventor of the famous Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Before Fame

He worked as a reporter for a variety of publications.

Trivia

He hired Edward Davis Jones to help him report on the financial deals of Wall Street.

Family Life

His farmer father died when he was only six years old.

Associated With

His newspaper was endorsed by William McKinley, the first president to do so.