When Dayton, Ohio Became a General Motors Town

Ed pulled these Dayton Daily News pages from a newspaper database.  Note that these pages capture precisely the time and the key people involved in the move of Dayton from local industries (albeit quite significant regionally and nationally) to being organizationally a part of General Motors. It is clear who the real players were -- Kettering, Deeds, Grant, Talbot. 1919 was  the year Dayton emerged as one of the most important GM cities world-wide, second only to Flint, Michigan.  That relationship would gradually end, culminating in 2008 with the closing of the truck factory in Moraine, Ohio. But the slide began in 1958, with the death of Charles Franklin Kettering, the man who did. so much to make Dayton dynamic.