Melville Elijah Stone

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Melville Elijah Stone, Sr.
Born(1848-08-22)August 22, 1848
Hudson, Illinois
DiedFebruary 15, 1929(1929-02-15) (aged 80)
New York City
Employer(s)Chicago Daily News
Associated Press
SpouseMartha Jameson McFarland
ChildrenMelville Elijah Stone, Jr.
Herbert Stuart Stone
Elizabeth Creighton Stone
Parent(s)Elijah Stone
Sophia Creighton
RelativesOrmond Stone, brother
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Melville Elijah Stone (August 22, 1848 – February 15, 1929) was an American newspaper publisher, the founder of the Chicago Daily News, and was the general manager of the reorganized Associated Press.[1]

Biography

Stone's parents were Reverend Elijah Stone, a

Chicago Record). Stone became general manager of the reorganized Associated Press in 1893, and under his direction it became one of the great news agencies. He retired in 1921. Stone died of hardening of the arteries in 1929.[1]

Legacy

Stone's son, Herbert Stone, married Mary Grigsby McCormick in 1900 and perished in the sinking of the luxury liner RMS Lusitania in 1915. His wife was daughter of William Grigsby McCormick of the McCormick family which included her uncle Robert Sanderson McCormick who married the daughter of the founder of the rival newspaper Chicago Tribune.[2] Another son, Melville Elijah Stone, Jr., also predeceased him but he was survived by his wife, the former Martha McFarland of Chicago, whom he married on November 25, 1869, and his daughter Elizabeth Creighton Stone. Stone's brother was the astronomer Ormond Stone. A Liberty ship is named in his honor.

The penny myth

On the March 3, 2008 edition of The Rest of the Story,

Mint, further increasing their use within the Chicago area.[3]

This story is also related in Scot Morris' The Book of Strange Facts and Useless Information, though there is some doubt as to its veracity.[4]

References

  1. ^
    New York Times
    . February 16, 1929. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8101-2039-6
    .
  3. ^ "The Rest of the Story". March 3, 2008. {{cite episode}}: Missing or empty |series= (help)
  4. ^ Adams, Cecil (February 21, 1992). "Why do prices end in .99?". The Straight Dope. Retrieved April 9, 2021.

Further reading

  • Abramoske, Donald J. "The Founding of the Chicago Daily News." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1966): 341-353. in JSTOR
  • Cole, Jaci, and John Maxwell Hamilton. "A Natural History of Foreign Correspondence: A Study of the Chicago Daily News, 1900-1921." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (2007) 84#1 pp: 151-166.
  • Dennis, Charles Henry. Victor Lawson: his time and his work (U of Chicago Press, 1935; reprint Greenwood Press, 1968); 471pp; scholarly biography
  • Melville E. Stone, Fifty Years a Journalist (1921), Doubleday, Page and Co.
  • Story of Chicago in Connection with the Printing Business (Chicago: Regan Printing House. 1912)
  • Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition (2001)

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