MELVILLE ELIJAH STONE (1848-1929)

Stone was born in Illinois and was a reporter when he founded the 1876 "penny paper," the Chicago Daily News. While serving as a Chicago bank president in 1893, Stone became general manager of the reorganized Associated Press, which under his direction became a prominent international news agency.

-- photo courtesy of Library of Congress, biography courtesy of Illinois State Archives

Samuel Calvin Wells worked for the Philadelphia Press from 1881 until its demise in 1920 and was editor-in-chief from 1908 to 1918.

-- biography courtesy Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Died. Edward Page Mitchell, 74, at New London, Conn., of cerebral hemorrhage. He was for 50 years associated with the New York Sun, on which he won his place at the age of 23 by writing letters to Editor Charles A. Dana from his home, Bath, Me. Editor Dana invited him to work at the then fabulous salary of $50 per week. This rose to $20,000 a year during the many years that Mr. Mitchell penned the Sun's leading editorials, famed for their tart penetration. When the late Publisher Munsey purchased the Sun (1916) he retained Mr. Mitchell as editorial chief.

Charles Ransom Miller, son of Elijah and Chastina C Hoyt Miller, born January 17, 1849 at Hanover. Attended the public schools of Hanover, the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire and the Green Institute at South Woodstock, Vermont, where he completed his preparation for college.

born September 9, 1850, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
died August 19, 1925, Chicago

Victor Fremont Lawson, newspaper editor and publisher, one of the first in the United States to assign correspondents to live and gather news in major cities outside the country. Before this innovation (1898) American newspapers relied on dispatches from British or other foreign sources. He also led the successful effort of Western publishers to rescue the Associated Press (AP) from a combine that leaked its news to the rival United Press (UP).