William Delbert Gann

William Delbert Gann was born June 6, 1878 in Lufkin, Texas. His father, Samuel Houston Gann, was a teacher, selling horses and cows. He also owned a small billiard club. His mother, Susan Rebecca Gann (nee Trevation), devoted all his time raising VD Gann and his younger brothers and sisters. She taught the young William to read through the Bible – the book, which later had an enormous impact on his thinking about the nature of financial markets. His family was poor. Samuel, Susan and their eight children lived in a small house, and young William to get to school every day, walked seven miles over three years. Gunn never finished high school.

In 1894, William Gunn, aged 16, he left teaching and began to look for work. He became a peddler (selling newspapers, food …) in the train, which traveled between Texarkana and Tyler, Texas. He also worked at the cotton warehouse.

In 1901, he worked at a brokerage firm in Texarkana, and married his first wife, Rena May Smith.

In 1902, the first daughter was born – Nora. 1902 was also the first year, when Gunn made his first deal in cotton.

In 1903 Gann moved to New York. He was already 25 years old.

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William Delbert Gann

, better known worldwide as WD Gann is a legend in the world of stock trading. He was one of the most successful ever lived, stock traders.

WD Gann was born on June 6, 1878 on a farm about seven miles from Lafkina, Texas. He was the first of 11 children Sam Houston Gann and Susan Gunn. Gann Family lived in a very small house with no frills. They were poor and the young Willie walked seven miles in Lafkin over three years to attend school. His father was a farmer in Angelina Country. They are all worried about the price that will bring their cotton. If you asked a young Willie, Does he like when he grows older, and work the soil in eastern Texas, he probably would have said no, he did not think so – he wanted to be a businessman.

But the work he could perform on the farm was more important for the family, so that William had never finished elementary or secondary school. As the eldest son las imposing on him a special responsibility, and those years of work on the farm, perhaps marked the beginning of his habit of hard work.

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