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Douglas James Dayton (December 2, 1924 – July 5, 2013) was an American retail executive, businessman, and philanthropist and heir to the Dayton's Company fortune who was the co-founder of the Target discount stores chain. Dayton ran Target's operations during its early years and served as the company's first president.
Target's president, Douglas J. Dayton, returned to the parent Dayton Corporation and was succeeded by William A. Hodder. Senior vice-president and founder John Geisse left the company. Geisse was later hired by St. Louis–based May Department Stores, where he founded the Venture Stores chain. Target Stores ended the year with eleven units and ...
Douglas Dayton (grandson) Mark Dayton (great-grandson) 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 .
After leaving the military, he moved to Minneapolis, where he began his retail career working for Dayton's. [1] [3] [7] In 1962, he and Douglas Dayton founded and launched the Target Stores for the Dayton Company, [8] now known as Target Corporation.
Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 was a regularly scheduled United States domestic cargo flight, flying from Reno, Nevada to Dayton, Ohio with an intermediate stopover at Rancho Cordova, California. On February 16, 2000, the DC-8-71F operating the flight crashed onto an automobile salvage yard shortly after taking off from Sacramento Mather ...
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 ...
Douglas continued to develop new aircraft, including the successful four-engined Douglas DC-6 (1946) and its last propeller-driven commercial aircraft, the Douglas DC-7 (1953). The company had moved into jet propulsion, producing its first for the U.S. Navy — the straight-winged F3D Skyknight in 1948 and then the more "jet age" style F4D ...
Douglas Dayton (1924–2013), American businessman and philanthropist; Elias Dayton (1737–1807), Colonel and father of Jonathan and builder of Fort Dayton; George Dayton (1857–1938), American entrepreneur and founder of Dayton's department store; Howard Dayton (born 1943), American chief executives; James Dayton (born 1988), English footballer