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D. W. Wilkinson
Douglas Warren Wilkinson was an American philosopher throughout most of the 20th century. Vaunted for his wisdom regarding everyday matters, Wilkinson is surprisingly not a well-known philosophical entity in American history. The Pinnacle of his illustrious career was when his intellect was required to help solve what is now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Since his death in 1981, much of his comprehensive enlightenment has been lost to the world.

D.W. Wilkinson was born July 27, 1905 in Warminster, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children born to Harold and Mary Anne Wilkinson. Harold and Mary Anne met while both were living in Philadelphia. Harold, a simple dock worker, was smitten from the moment he laid eyes upon Mary Anne. After saving up for marriage, the two were bound in holy matrimony in June of 1887.

Of the first four children born to the Wilkinsons, the three oldest were healthy and strapping boys. John, Henry and David would follow their father's footsteps in the trade industry. Douglas, however, was closest to his sister, Barbara. Unfortunately, Barbara passed when she was only 11. At age 9, young Douglas began to see the world differently than others. Despite being rather close to his sister, he wasted little time mourning her death, for he knew that she was indeed gone. Expending mass amounts of emotional energy grieving just did not seem optimal to him.

Because Douglas was small, he was often picked on in school. Though his mother pleaded with the older boys to come to his aid, Douglas never had a single brother stick up for him. It was not that this eliminated his ability to trust others, it was this experience that taught him to rely upon your own merits because "most humans have not the capacity to truly be there when called upon".

Douglas excelled in school. By the age of 14, he had surpassed all of his brothers in school. Learning of him was not necessarily a passion, but what he discovered was that true power and influence comes to those who have knowledge, not those who happen to be bigger or stronger. So, while other kids were out playing stick ball and turning into Babe Ruth games, Douglas was mastering arithmetic and history.

His mother fell ill and eventually died in March of 1922 after developing a serious case of tuberculosis. Douglas left home two months later just prior to his 18th birthday.

He found a job doing clerical work for Biddle and Ward, a prestigious law firm in Philadelphia. While working there, he heard rumors about how the stock market in New York was "booming". That day in 1927 he told his boss he was leaving to go seek a fortune in the stocks. HIs employer warned him that following the money was a bad idea and that Douglas did not have what it took to succeed. 22-year old Douglas responded, "If you don't bet on yourself, then you are betting on others and those odds are not great."

Within a month or two, Douglas set his sights on working for JP Morgan. Heading into the halls of what he believed to be sacred territory, Douglas decided to go by "DW Wilkinson" so as to emulate JP Morgan.