Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature:Uncle: Henry Dayton; GAs 14, 15
John Franklin Dayton
Allamakee County
Born at Hadley, Saratoga County, New York, on the 10th day of January, 1849. The parents of Mr. Dayton removed to Saratoga Springs in 1850, where his father was engaged in the practice of medicine until 1858, when the family removed to Rockford, Illinois. Mr. Dayton attended the public schools of Rockford, graduating there from in 1867, and taught school while preparing for college. He attended Beloit College for two years, and in 1871 began the study of law in the offices of Messrs. Brown & Taylor, of Rockford. In 1873 he came to Waukon, Iowa, and was admitted to practice, and formed with Henry Dayton the firm of Dayton & Dayton, which has since been continued. On October 13, 1875, he married Miss Laura Hewitt, of Rockford, Illinois. Mr. Dayton was elected as the first mayor of Waukon, Iowa, upon its incorporation, and served three terms in that capacity. He was the representative of Allamakee County in the Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth General Assemblies, and took an active part in the legislation of the Twenty-second with reference to corporate control. He was the chairman of the committee upon railroads and commerce in the Twenty-third General Assembly, and the nominee of the Democratic Party for the speakership of the Twenty-fourth. He was also the candidate of the Democratic Party for the office of district judge of the Thirteenth judicial district, in the election of 1894, but was defeated by the great republican vote of that year. In 1897 his name was presented to the democratic state convention by the delegates of the Fourth congressional district, as their choice for the nomination for governor, and he received a large vote in the convention. In addition to the active practice of his profession, Mr. Dayton carries on one of the largest nurseries and fruit farms in the northwest.
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