Charles H Dow was the founder of the Dow-Jones financial news service in New York, and founder and first editor of the Wall Street Journal. He died in December, 1902 in his fifty-second year. He was an experienced newspaper reporter, with an early training under Samuel Bowles, the great editor of the Springfield Republican. Dow was a New Englander, intelligent, self-repressed, ultra-conservative; and he knew his business. He was almost judicially cold in the consideration of any subject, whatever the fervor of the discussion. It would be less than just to say that I never saw him angry; I never saw him excited. His perfect integrity and good sense commanded the confidence of every man in Wall Street, at a time when there were few efficient newspaper men covering the financial section, and of these still fewer with any deep knowledge of finance.
Hamilton, 1922
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