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General Motors "Factory One" war nacheinander Sitz der Flint Woolen Mills, der Flint Road Cart Co., der Durant-Dort Carriage Co. und der Dort Motor Car Co.

Josiah Dallas Dort (* 2. Februar 1861 in Inkster (Wayne County, Michigan; † 17. Mai 1925) in war ein US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, Automobilpionier und Philantrop.

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Josiah Dallas Dort, der seinen ersten Vornamen nicht mochte und sich meist J. Dallas Dort nannte, war der Sohn des angesehenen Gutsbesitzers und Kaufmanns Josiah Dort und Marcia Jones-Straight Dort, die beide aus Neuengland stammten.

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Sein Vater starb, als J.D. zehn Jahre alt war. Ein zwei jahre jüngerer Schulkamerad in Inkster war Henry Ford

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Mit 15 verließ J.D. die Schule um seiner Mutter im Familienunternehmen zu helfen und in einer Töpferei zusätzlich Geld zu verdienen.

1881 begann er den Laden von James Bussey auf Basis eines Gehalts mit Gewinnbeteiligung zu führen.

or J.D. Dort) was born in , Michigan in 1861.[5] His father was a well-to-do country squire and merchant, well connected politically, who died in 1871 when Josiah was ten.[5] Dort left school at age 15, to help his mother in business and to work at a crockery firm. In 1881, he began working at a Flint hardware store, and within a few years opened his own hardware store.[5] Dort is the namesake of Flint area trunkline Dort Highway (a.k.a M-54).

Birth: Feb. 2, 1861 Inkster Wayne County Michigan, USA Death: 1925, USA

Josiah Dallas Dort is a Co-Founder of current day General Motors. In the spring of 1886, he and William C. Durant, a successful insurance man, formed a partnership which was to have a profound effect on Flint and the American auto industry. That summer, both Dort and Durant founded the Flint Road Cart Co., but later changed the name to Durant-Dort Carriage Co. which was the largest builder of passenger vehicles in the world.(1) In 1914 he began the liquidation of the carriage company and in 1915 founded the Dort Motor Co.which was dissolved in 1923. He was also the founder of the Imperial Wheel Co., the Flint Varnish Works, The Flint Axle Works and many other companies. Dort founded Flint Vehicles Factories Mutual Benefit Association which was the forerunner of the Industrial Mutual Association. He was a director of the Genesee County Savings Bank and president of the Carriage Builders' National Association. He helped draft the law creating the Michigan Railroad Commission and served on the city planning and park boards. He was an active member in the planning of the Flint YMCA and the first city hospital, which is now Hurley Medical Center. During WWI, he devoted most of his two years to Liberty Bonds and other patriotic activities.(2) Dort achieved national recognition on Feb. 6, 1918, when the New York Times published an account of Flint's achievement, under Dort's leadership, in exceeding its war bond campaign by 30 percent. In 1925 Dort's death left the entire city in mourning.(2) The Dort home on Kearsley St. was the first home of the Flint Institute of Music and is the site of the current building. Photo Credit: Flint Public Library Collection

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Der Erste Weltkrieg[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Dort half beim ersten Liberty War Bond

gründete das Geneseee War Board

Chairman First Red Cross drive

appointed by governor chairman of the Michigan War Preparedness Board, Genesee County Section

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As stated in the article from 1918 he was twice married. His first wife "Nellie" Matilda Bates died in Phoenix, Arizona March of 1900, and was buried in Flint, Michigan at Glenwood Cemetery. Dort took a two year absence from Flint when his wife became ill. She required the drier climate in Phoenix. After her death he then got remarried May 8, 1906 to one "Mable" Marcia Webb the daughter of Charles Augustus and Rosa Webb. Her father Charles was once commandant at Fort Mackinac. Her mother Rosa founded the first library on Mackinac Island. Marcia was born September 1, 1881 and passed away in Flint in 1978. I have found two conflicting dates for her death. One shows August of 1978, another shows October 12, 1978. Either way she is listed as being buried in the Old Flint Cemetery. How they met, I have not found yet. She went to college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and later transferred to Vassar in upstate New York. I guess what I'm driving at is, like his friend Durant, Dort was another well to do businessman who liked the younger ladies. Another interesting fact I found in the Dearborn Historian from 1968 states that "Dort was the person responsible for bringing Charles Nash into the fold". It says that Nash came to his attention while working as a cherry picker on Dort's farm. This conflicts with the story of Durant having discovered Nash's talents. One final note: as a tribute to Dort, a highway in Flint was named in his honor. Part of the famous "Dixie" highway, which was called Western road at that time, was simply renamed, "Dort" highway. This was changed by the Flint city council on August 2, 1926, a little over a year after he passed away. The business route for the Dixie was Saginaw Street through downtown Flint. follow the link for Nash history

Josiah Dallas Dort

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  • Parkanlagen in Genesee County
  • Landentwicklungsplan
  • Dort Highway

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  • G. N. Georgano (Herausgeber): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present; Dutton Press, New York, 2. Auflage (Hardcover) 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 (Englisch)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Herausgeberin), Henry Austin Clark jr.: Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1805-1942. 2. Auflage. Krause Publications, Iola WI (1985), ISBN 0-87341-111-0. (Englisch)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Herausgeberin), Henry Austin Clark jr.: Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1805-1942. 3. Auflage. Krause Publications, Iola WI (1996), ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9 ISBN 0-87341-428-4. (Englisch)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Herausgeber SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X (Hardcover). (Englisch)
  • James J. Flink: America Adopts the Automobile - 1895-1910, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1970. ISBN 0-262 06036-1 (Hardcover). (Englisch)
  • Axel Madsen: The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant made General Motors, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-4713-9523-4(pbck) (Englisch)
  • Alfred P. Sloan: Meine Jahre mit General Motors, 2. Auflage (Sept. 1965), Verlag Moderne Industrie (dt. Lizenzausgabe von My Years With General Motors, Doubleday & Co., Garden City NY (USA)
  • Lawrence R. Gustin, Kevin M. Kirbitz, Robert A. Lutz (Einleitung): David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car: The Men and the Automobile that Launched General Motors, 2. ergänzte und erweiterte Auflage (2011); RateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; ISBN 1-466-26367-9 ISBN 978-1466-26367-3; soft cover (Englisch)
  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalogue of Chevrolet 1912-2003. Krause Publications, Iola WI (2003), ISBN 0-87349-680-9 (pk) (Englisch)
  • Arch Brown, Pat Chappell, Bob Brown: Chevrolet Chronicle - A Pictorial History from 1904; Consumer's Guide; Publications International, Lincolnwood IL (1991), ISBN 0-8317-1264-3, gebundene Ausgabe (Englisch)
  • Martin Sinzig: ’’Louis Chevrolet – Der Mann, der dem Chevy seinen Namen gab’’; Verlag Huber Frauenfeld (Schweiz), ISBN 978-3-7193-1566-5, gebundene Ausgabe
  • Charles D. Ellis und James R. Vertin: Wall Street People: Volume 2: True Stories of the Great Barons of Finance; John Wiley & Sons (14. Januar 2003); ISBN: 0-471-27428-3; ISBN: 978-0471-27428-5 (Englisch)
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  1. ↑ Madsen: The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant made General Motors, S. 180
  2. ↑ Gustin/Kirbitz: David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car (2011), S. 131
  3. ↑ Kimes/Clark: Standard Catalogue of American Cars (1985), S. 11
  4. ↑ Kimes/Clark: Standard Catalogue of American Cars (1985), S. 13
  5. ↑ Flink: America Adopts the Automobile (1970), S. 70
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