Melville Elijah Stone
Melville Elijah Stone, Sr. | |
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Born | |
Died | February 15, 1929 | (aged 80)
Employer(s) | Chicago Daily News Associated Press |
Spouse | Martha Jameson McFarland |
Children | Melville Elijah Stone, Jr. Herbert Stuart Stone Elizabeth Creighton Stone |
Parent(s) | Elijah Stone Sophia Creighton |
Relatives | Ormond 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
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,
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
- ^ New York Times. February 16, 1929. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ISBN 978-0-8101-2039-6.
- ^ "The Rest of the Story". March 3, 2008.
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(help) - ^ 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)
External links
- Melville Stone papers at Newberry Library
- Melville Stone - Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL newspaper)