Veterans Memorial Park
Melville Elijah Stone was born August 22, 1848, at Five Oaks Cottage in Hudson, Illinois. He died February 15, 1929, and is entombed at the Washington Cathedral, Washington D. C.
Stone was the co-founder of the Chicago Daily News in 1875. He sold his interest in the paper in 1892.
Melville Stone served as general manager of the Associated Press from 1893 to 1921. He remained with that organization in various capacities until his death in 1929. He was one of the best-known journalists of his time.
In 1933, a large boulder with a bronze tablet, marking Stone’s birthplace, was placed in front of the house on Broadway Street in Hudson. When the house was razed in 2000, the boulder was moved to its new location in Hudson’s Veterans Park.
History of this former home, FIVE OAKS COTTAGE – 106 N. Broadway Street, Hudson, Illinois, can be found in the Hudson Area Public Library’s Hudson History Room in the “Homes of Hudson Binder – Book One”.