Oxford, Nebraska

Legalities and Lawyers

Lueking Hardware

Loper's IGA Store

McGee's Food Market

Middleton Motor Co.

Mitchell and Son Hardware

Nebraska Senior Citizens Homes,

Neither Rain, Hail or Snow

Nelson Brothers

Nielsen Brothers

Oxford Grain Elevators

Oxford Hatchery

Oxford Laundramat

Oxford Photographers

Oxford Standard , Oxford Standard 1910

Pettygrove Hardware & Implement

Phillips 66 Service

Post Office 1910

Preston Appliances and Furniture

Preston Drug / Banwells "Preston Drug"

Quinn Electric and Plumbing

Real Estate and Loans in Early Oxford

Security State Bank

Shorty's Service Shop

To Be or Not to Be "Dry"

Tonsorial Parlors of Oxford

Undertaking-Hardware and Implements-Furniture

Van's Blacksmith and Welding

Village Smithies

Weast's Machine & Electric

DEDICATIONS

This book is dedicted to all those who came, who saw and who remained long enough to help create the conditions that exist in the Oxford Community in the Nebraska Centennial Year of 1967.

CHALLENGE

May the recounting of the trials, tributations and successes of the pioneers, who built far better than they realized, become a challenge to those who follow in their footsteps to except.

Four Score and Seven Years

Part I,II, III,IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Helena Luke

History Map of Oxford, Nebraska, and what was there in the 1800's

The Beginning of Oxford by Chas. Scott

JD Lumber

Old Oxford Phone Book Ads

"The Beginning of the Oxford, Nebraska Website, News Clips"

Thanks to everyone that put a huge amount of work together to publish this book and made it possible.
This website is dedicated to the ladies that were the drive behind making this book happen. Wonderful Job...

Laura L. Cowan & Helena L. Luke
Oxford Centennial Committee Members

Early Business From 1880-1967

Contents

Part I Municipal and Tax Supported Institutions..........................................Page 7

Part II Histories of our Earliest Families......................................................Page 39

Part III Early Business Growth From 1880-1967...........................................Page 113

Part IV Oxford Churches..............................................................................Page 191

Part V Education and Related Activity..........................................................Page 205

Part VI Establishment and Growth of the Railroads......................................Page 233

Part VII Organizations (Civic and Social)......................................................Page 245

made possible by the Oxford Centennial Committee

South Central Bank

Earliest Families

Much more to come.....1st 7 Chapters are done, Enjoy and stop again.. This is a lot of work. Thanks