Executive Summary

According to research and the history of Target Corporation, “George Draper Dayton established the Minnesota Loan & Investment Company in Worthington, Minnesota, and eventually opened operations in Minneapolis. There, in 1902, Dayton’s Dry Goods grew into a major American chain of department stores, which Dayton operated under strict Presbyterian principles, including keeping the stores closed on Sundays, performing no inventory, repair, or business-related travel on the Sabbath, and never purchasing advertisements in newspapers that also” (NNBD, 201