In 1892 a group of 65 newspapermen, led by the late, famed Publisher Victor Fremont Lawson of the Chicago Daily News and his onetime partner, Melville Elijah Stone, met in Chicago and organized the Associated Press of Illinois. It was the first big non-commercial news agency (incorporated in New York in 1900 under a law providing for the organization of "fish & game" clubs) to share news dispatches among its member papers.
AP's Oliver Gramling, 36-year-old head of the membership department, onetime reporter, city editor, bureau chief, told the story last week in...
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