Career
Kiernan began work as a messenger boy with the Magnetic Telegraph Company, and later with Western Union. In 1869, he opened his own financial news service, using a stock ticker. About 1880, he hired Charles Dow and Edward Jones as financial reporters.
Soon after the business got into trouble, and Kiernan left it in 1888.
He died on November 29, 1893, of "heart failure and pneumonia".
