Important people linked to the Gem City

In this case, they weren’t necessary born in Dayton, but the city did play a role in their success.

1. Wright Brothers, inventors of the airplane
2. Charles F. Kettering, prolific inventor
3. John Henry Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register Company
4. Thomas Watson Jr., of IBM fame after being fired – twice – by Patterson
5. James Cox, Democratic presidential nominee and newspaper publisher
6. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Black poet
7. Scotty Reston, editor of the New York Times
8. Frank Stanton, head of Columbia Broadcasting Company (CBS)
9. Milton Caniff, master cartoonist
10. Mike Peters, freewheeling cartoonist

I should also mention Larry Flint, pornographer, who established Hustler magazine, named after his bar.