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Charles Bergstresser, Class of 1881, was discussed in the July 8 edition of The Wall Street Journal in a letter to readers from editor in chief Gerard Baker. The letter celebrated the newspaper’s 125th anniversary.
Bergstresser was the silent partner who bankrolled the publishing venture of Charles Henry Dow and Edward Davis Jones. By 1889, Dow Jones & Co. had grown to 50 employees and its business publication, founded in 1883, had evolved into a full-sized newspaper, which Bergstresser named The Wall Street Journal.
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Lafayette College has fingers in much of the world’s doings. “On Lafayette!”
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