Biography of Dayton: An Economic Interpretation of Local History. by Joseph William Sharts (1875-1965)Dayton, OH: Miami Valley Socialist, 1922Short work of Marxist local history by the publisher and editor of the weekly Miami Valley Socialist, Joseph Sharts. Sharts was a prominent Dayton attorney and the author of six melodramatic romance novels between the years 1900 and 1913. He was a member of the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party from 1925 to 1932 and was three times the Socialist candidate for Governor of Ohio.Book digitized by the Google Books project.Uploaded to Archive.com by Tim Davenport ("Carrite") in December 2015.