William Peter Hamilton

William Peter Hamilton
William Peter Hamilton c.1910-1913
Born(1867-01-20)January 20, 1867
Manchester, England
DiedDecember 9, 1929(1929-12-09) (aged 62)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, Journalist, Editor, Technical Analyst
Years active1890–1929
Spouse(s)Georgianna Tooker (1850-1916)
(m. 1901; died 1916)
Lillian Hart (1861-1955)
(m. 1917)

William Peter Hamilton (January 20, 1867 – December 9, 1929), a proponent of Dow Theory, was the fourth editor of the Wall Street Journal, serving in that capacity for more than 20 years (i.e., January 1, 1908 – December 9, 1929).[1][2][3]

"Some people think and others do. Dow thought and created an index and pondered it. Hamilton [by contrast,] put it to practice as a workhorse. He was the first serious practitioner of [both] the art of forecasting future stock action based on precise prior action [and the] forecasting of the economy based on the market."[4]
  1. ^ NYT.1.
  2. ^ Brown, Goetzmann & Kumar, Alok (1998).
  3. ^ Note that this "William P. Hamilton" is a completely different individual from the "William P. Hamilton" — William Pierson Hamilton (1869–1950) — a banker, who married Juliet Pierpont Morgan (1870-1952), the daughter of John Pierpont Morgan (1869–1950) on April 12, 1894.
  4. ^ Fisher (2007), p. 262.