John Kenley, an Ohio-based producer, ran his own summer stock circuit, Kenley Players, in Columbus, Dayton, Warren, the Carousel Theatre in Akron, and Canton, Ohio.

* Chip Mead ( 1950 – 1993 ), American race car driver from Dayton, Ohio

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

After moving to Dayton in the 1930s, his father was a factory worker / machinery inspector at the National Cash Register Company.

The company began as the National Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, which was established to manufacture and sell the first mechanical cash register, invented in 1879 by James Ritty.

Deeds and Kettering went on to found Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company which later became Delco Products Division of General Motors.

On October 5, 1802, the Scioto Company met in Granby, Connecticut and decided not to purchase the lands along the Scioto River on the Pickaway Plains, but rather to buy land farther north from Dr. John Stanbery and his partner, an American Revolutionary War general, Jonathan Dayton.

Xenia was also served by two interurban railways: the Dayton and Xenia Transit Company, and the Springfield and Xenia Railway.

It was later purchased by the Dayton Coca-Cola Bottling Company in the mid 1970s.

The line became a reality June 10, 1852 as the Dayton and Greenville Railroad Company was ready for travel.

By 1907 the Trinity Valley and Northern Railway Company, built for use of the Dayton Lumber Company, served Dayton, located on the west side of the Trinity River and originally known as West Liberty.

In 1911, Charles F. Kettering, with Henry M. Leland, of Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company ( DELCO ) invented and filed for the first electric starter in America.

Under the leadership of the Patterson family ( who had founded The National Cash Register Company ), prominent citizens formed the Dayton Air Service Committee, Inc.

Curtiss-Wright came into existence on July 5, 1929, the result of a merger of 12 companies associated with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, and Wright Aeronautical of Dayton, Ohio, and was headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

The team was reorganized in 1916 as a recreational football team from among the employees of three downtown Dayton factories: the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company ( or Delco ), the Dayton Metal Products Company, and the Domestic Engineering Company ( now called Delco-Light ).

Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796, seven years before the admission of Ohio to the Union in early 1803, by a group of 12 settlers known as " The Thompson Party.

* St. Mary ’ s Institute ( the future University of Dayton ) is founded in Dayton, OH.

The Town of Dayton was founded in 1835, formed from the Town of Perrysburg.

The school was founded over thirty years ago, and has been educating many from Springfield and other surrounding cities such as Yellow Springs, Dayton, and Jamestown.

Dayton, on U. S. Highway 90 six miles west of Liberty in southwestern Liberty County, was first called West Liberty and was considered part of the original town of Liberty, founded in 1831.

Dayton was founded in the 1860s.

In 1973, the Dayton Triangles RFC rugby club was founded.

George Dayton had founded his Dayton's Dry Goods store in Minneapolis in 1902 and the AMC cooperative in 1912.

In 1914, recognizing that Dayton was among the leading industrial cities in the US due to the skilled engineers and technicians in the city, they founded the Engineers Club of Dayton and the Foreman ’ s Club of Dayton which later on became the National Management Association.

Paul Iams, an animal nutritionist who graduated from Ohio State University in 1938, founded The Iams Company in 1946 in a small feed mill near Dayton.

Already in 1967 the Mission Advanced Research and Communication Center ( MARC ) was founded by Ed Dayton as a Division of World Vision International.

Other cities in the region, such as Lenoir City, Harriman, Rockwood, Dayton, and Englewood, were founded as company towns during this period.

McLin's family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1931, where he attended Dunbar High School and worked at the family business, the McLin Funeral Home, founded by his father.

McLin Sr .) ( August 20, 1899 – December 20, 1966 ), a civic leader in Dayton, Ohio, founded the McLin Funeral Home in Dayton in 1932.

Also in 1858, the Upsilon chapter was finally founded at the University of North Carolina, fulfilling the purpose of Brother Dayton in his last journey south.

Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, United States, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News.

The Toledo Storm were founded in 1991, joining the East Coast Hockey League for the 1991 – 92 season as an expansion franchise with two other Ohio franchises, the Columbus Chill and Dayton Bombers, and the Raleigh IceCaps of Raleigh, North Carolina.

A self-taught animal nutritionalist, Iams founded his company in 1946, and, by 1950, was creating his own recipes in his own plant in Dayton.

* 1910 – The first air freight shipment ( from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio ) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

Texas governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., was born in Dayton on October 10, 1910 ; his brother Bill Daniel, governor of the United States Territory of Guam from 1961 through 1963, was born in Dayton on November 20, 1915.

The two buildings designed by Dayton architect William Earl Russ and built by Rouzer Construction for the Wright Company in Dayton in 1910 and 1911 were the first in the United States constructed specifically for an airplane factory and were included within the boundary of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in 2009.

The first reliable battery operated ignition was developed by the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. ( Delco ) and introduced in the 1910 Cadillac.

The first reliable battery operated ignition was developed by Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. ( Delco ) and introduced in the 1910 Cadillac.

* 1910: Name changes once again, to Dayton Company.

The first commercial cargo flight occurred between Dayton and Columbus in 1910.

The monument is being built will be finished by 2012, and the design also calls for a transit center with a museum that offers tours through the historical Dayton region.