Dayton
Dayton names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dayton a city and county-seat of Montgomery co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Montgomery co., O.; on the Great Miami river at its confluence with the Mad and Stillwater rivers; served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, the Erie, the Pennsylvania and other railroads. It is 60 miles N. E. of Cincinnati. The industries of Dayton are diversified. Its chief manufactured products are airplanes, automobile parts, cash registers, bicycles, sewing machines, foundry and machine shop products, lighting plants, shoe lasts, cigars, toys and paper-box goods. Dayton was the first large city in the United States to adopt government by a city manager and legislative commission. Five commissioners, elected by the people, choose a city manager. All six are subject to recall. The initiative and referendum are included in the charter. The divisions of the municipal government are the Service, Safety, Finance, Law and Welfare Departments. There is a large government aviation experimental station within a mile of the center of the city. An intermediate supply depot for aviation equipment is maintained by the government eig eight miles from the city, on the ground where the Wright Brothers made some of their initial flights in the first really successful airplane. An engineering project for the prevention of another flood disaster like that of 1913 is well under way. Dayton has a National Military Home Hospital for veterans of the Civil, Cuban and World Wars and many public and private hospitals. Dayton was settled in 1796; incorporated in 1805; and chartered as a city in 1841. A new charter providing for the commission-manager form of government was adopted in 1913. Pop. (1910) 116,577; (1920) 152,559.
Dayton a city of Kentucky
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Kentucky, in Campbell co. It is on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and on the Ohio river. There are manufactures of watch cases and pianos. The city contains the Speers Memo Memorial Hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. gs. Pop. (1910) 6,979; especially a dealister deacon (1920) 7,646.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The flood-prevention project Collier's called "well under way" in 1921 became the Miami Conservancy District's system of five dry dams, finished in 1922; Dayton has not seen a repeat of the 1913 disaster. The "government aviation experimental station" and supply depot on the Wright brothers' flying ground grew into Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, consolidated under that name in 1948 and the site of the 1995 talks that produced the Dayton Agreement ending the war in Bosnia. Of the industries listed, cash registers mattered most: NCR dominated the city for a century before moving its headquarters to the Atlanta area in 2009. The commission-and-city-manager charter of 1913 still governs Dayton, but the population that had just reached 152,559 peaked near 262,000 around 1960 and stood at about 138,000 in 2020. Dayton, Kentucky remains a small Ohio River suburb of a few thousand.
Written for this edition, 2026.