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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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MELVILLE ELIJAH STONE Melville Elijah Stone was born at Hudson, Illinois, August 22, 1848, and died in New York, February 15, 1929. H e was elected to the Hall October 3, 1929— Election 8. Due to the itinerant life of his father, a preacher on an Illinois circuit, Stone's early education was irregular. It was acquired in the public schools of Nauvoo, Chicago, Kaneville, and Naperville. At 16 Stone became a reporter on The Chicago Tribune. In 1871 he was made managing editor of The Chicago Republican and a year later effected a consolidation between the Post and the Mail. In 1875 he started The Chicago Daily News and in 18S1 The Morning News. In 1892 he accepted the post of general manager of The Associated Press of Illinois and when The Associated Press was reorganized in 1900 he was chosen as general manager and served in that capacity until 1921. From 1921 until his death he held the post of counsellor. After his death he was voted the title of a founder of The Associated Press. Honorary degrees were bestowed upon Mr. Stone by Yale, Wesleyan, Columbia, Middlebury and Knox. Among nearly a score of foreign decorations given to Mr. Stone by foreign governments are those of Japan, France, Italy, Belgium, Siam, Sweden, Russia, Germany and Poland. [Pdfft 6$
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