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George Dayton was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded Dayton's department store, later Target Corporation. He was born in New York in 1857, moved to Minnesota in 1883, and died in 1938.
Learn about the origins and evolution of Target Corporation, a leading retailer in the United States, from its founding in 1962 as a subsidiary of Dayton Company. Explore its expansion, acquisitions, innovations, and challenges over the decades.
Learn about the origins and evolution of Target Corporation, an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets. Find out how Target stores sell general merchandise, groceries, and offer services such as Starbucks, Pizza Hut, and pharmacy.
Douglas James Dayton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 2, 1924. He was youngest of five brothers. His father, George N. Dayton, became the president of the family business, Dayton Dry Goods Company, in 1938. The business, which evolved into Dayton's department store, was founded by Douglas' grandfather, George D. Dayton. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
Dayton's was founded in Minneapolis in 1902 by George Draper Dayton and operated several local high end department stores in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. It also started Target and the first indoor shopping mall in the US, and merged with Marshall Field's in 2001.
Date: I wrote the article, created the lay-out, and took the photo 3/3/2003: Source: Research with the staff of the George Dayton House. Previously published: It once appeared on my own webstite, Okabena Media, which no longer exists.