Dayton, Ohio, is named after Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824), a man born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, educated at what is now Princeton University, and had a political career that included serving as the Speaker of the House in the Fourth and Fifth Congresses. His national political career was destroyed due to his affiliation with Aaron Burr, who apparently planned, but never executed, a plan to travel to the southwest U.S. to conquer Spanish lands and create an empire. The city of Dayton is named for Jonathan because he owned 250,000 acres of Ohio land between the Big and Little Miami Rivers. More life details can be found at the link below.
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