William Allen White
Melville Elijah Stone
Job title
general manager
First name
Melville Elijah
Last name
Stone
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
Employer
The Associated Press
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