Background
A native of Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, Bergstresser was born on June 25, 1858.
A native of Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, Bergstresser was born on June 25, 1858.
Bergstresser graduated from Lafayette College, where he took a scientific course and Latin, in 1881.
After graduation, he took a job with the Kiernan News Agency, but he was not satisfied with his employment, particularly when the Agency refused to give equity interest in a stylus that he had invented which would allow information to be inscribed in 35 bulletins at once. Dow and Jones were co-workers there, and Bergstresser convinced the pair to join him in departing from Kiernan to form their own company in November 1882. He worked for the new company as a reporter.
lieutenant was he who came up with the name The Wall Street Journal.
He retired as a journalist in 1903. He died on Thursday, September 20, 1923.