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Edward Jones (statistician)

Edward Davis Jones was an American statistician and journalist. Jones is best known as the "Jones" in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and as a co-founder of The Wall Street Journal.

Early life
Jones was born on October 7, 1856, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jones' parents, Reverend John Jones and Clarissa () Jones, were of Welsh descent. Jones graduated from Worcester Academy and attended Brown University before dropping out in his junior year.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times == Dow Jones ==
Dow Jones
The company which is famous for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, The Wall Street Journal was founded by Jones and Charles Dow in 1882 "in the basement of the New York Stock Exchange"; Charles Bergstresser was a silent partner. Jones had met Dow while both had worked as fellow reporters in Providence, Rhode Island. He died in New York in 1920 at the age of 63. == References ==
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