DAYTON

dayton, a city and the county-seat of montgomery county, ohio, u.s.a., at the confluence of wolf creek, stillwater river and mad river with the great miami, 57 m. n.n.e. of cincinnati and about 70 m. w.s.w. of columbus. pop. (1890) 61,220; (1900) 85,333; (1910) 116,577. in 1900 there were 10,053 foreign-born and 3387 negroes; of the foreign-born 6820 were germans and 1253 irish. dayton is served by the erie, the cleveland, cincinnati, chicago & st louis, the pittsburg, cincinnati, chicago & st louis, the cincinnati, hamilton & dayton, and the dayton & union railways, by ten interurban electric railways, centring here, and by the miami & erie canal. the city extends more than 5 m. from e. to