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

Stuart H. Perry (1874-1957) was a newspaper publisher and authority on meteorites. He made extensive collections of meteorites and donated many specimens to the United States National Museum (USNM). In 1940, Perry became an Honorary Associate in Mineralogy, USNM, a title he held until his death.