George Dayton
ABOUT GEORGE DAYTON
Founder of the Dayton's Department store, which became the modern-day Target corporation.
His Minnesota investment company took over a floundering dry-goods retail store, which he renamed and reopened as the more successful Dayton Dry Goods.
His company built Southdale, the first enclosed shopping mall, in Minneapolis and in 1962 opened a discount store that was branded as Target.
His family was residing in Clifton Springs, New York, when he was born.
He and Roland Hussey Macy , the founder of the Macy's department stores, both changed the shopping and consumption culture of America.
