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George Draper Dayton (March 6, 1857 – February 18, 1938) was an American businessman and philanthropist, most famous for being the founder of Dayton's department store, which later became Target Corporation.
In 1918, Dayton, who donated most of his money to charity, founded the Dayton Foundation with $1 million. [2] By the 1920s, the Dayton Company was a multimillion-dollar business that had filled the entire six-story building. Dayton began transferring parts of the business to his son Nelson after an earlier 43-year-old son, David, died in 1923.
Dayton's has roots in R.S. Goodfellow & Company, a dry goods business founded as Goodfellow and Eastman in 1878. [5] George Draper Dayton constructed a six-story building at Nicollet Avenue and Seventh Street in 1902 and convinced Goodfellow's, then the fourth-largest department store in Minneapolis, [6] to become the tenant.
Bruce Bliss Dayton (August 16, 1918 – November 13, 2015) was an American retail executive, businessman, heir to the Dayton's Company fortune, and philanthropist.. Dayton was the last surviving member of the five Dayton brothers – all grandsons of George Dayton, the founder of The Dayton Company – who expanded Dayton's department store founded by their grandfather in downtown Minneapolis ...
George Draper Dayton. George Dayton (1857-1938) came to Minnesota from New York in 1883. His family was one of average means, and he had hoped to become a minister, but was lured by the urge to be in the business world. He married Emma Chadwick in 1878 and began buying farm mortgages in southwest Minnesota. In 1883 he and his family moved to ...
The Dayton’s Project is a mixed department store and office located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] It succeeded Dayton's at its downtown flagship store. [ 2 ] The company was founded in 2017.
He was the son of George Walther Jr., owner of Dayton Steel Foundry, who fielded Indy 500 cars for Juan Manuel Fangio in 1958 and Mike Magill in 1959. His German-born grandfather George Walther Sr. established the foundry and was a prominent inventor and industrialist.
George Hall Dixon: deputy secretary of the treasury under President Gerald Ford; George Nicholas Eckert: director of the United States Mint, 1851–1853; Myer Feldman: White House Counsel to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; William R. Ferris: chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997–2000