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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WILLIAM OXFORD, Seward township farmer, has been a resident of the county for

the past eighteen years. He owns and farms the southwest quarter of section 33,

which he purchased two years before becoming a resident of the state. He was

born in Covington, Fountain county, Ind., Sept. 23, 1854, where he resided until

in the early sixties, when his father enlisted in the army and his mother moved,

with the children, to Terre Haute, Ind. Here the subject of this sketch grew to

early manhood and attended school. At the age of seventeen years he moved to

Iroquois county, Ill., and worked on a farm two years, then back to Indiana two

years, and returning to Iroquois county, he married and engaged in farming  on

rented land.



  In March, 1890, Mr. Oxford moved to Nobles county and rented a farm in Graham

Lakes township, upon which he resided that summer, and that fall moved onto the

Hilden farm in Seward township, which he rented and farmed four years. In 1895

Mr. Oxford moved onto his farm in Seward township, where he has since lived, and

has prospered.



  William is the son of Elias Oxford, a native of Perrysville, Vermilion county,

Ind. Elias Oxford lived in Perrysville until after his marriage, when he moved

to Covington, in the same state, where he resided until he enlisted in the union

army. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Seventy-second Indiana

voluteer infantry at Covington. A few months after joining the army he was taken

prisoner and was incarcerated in the old Libby prison in Richmond, Virginia.

Nine months later he was exchanged and sent to Washington, where he died six

days after gaining his freedom from the effects of prison life. William Oxford's

mother is Frances (Gilbert) Oxford, who resides in Terre Haute, Ind. William is

the next to the oldest of a family of three children who bear the name of

Oxford. His mother married the second time and he has one half-sister living.



  William Oxford was married in Iroquois county, Ill., on the farm of the

bride's parents, Dec. 23, 1873, to Abigal McSorley, a native of Iroquois county,

her parents being James and Fannie McSorley. The former is dead; the latter is

residing at Martinton, Ill. To this union five children have been born—three

boys and two girls. Those living are: Charlie E., Roscoe C. and Frances F.



  Mr. Oxford has been honored by office on several occasions since becoming a

resident of the county. He is justice of the peace of his precinct, having held

the office for the past three years; is the present treasurer of school district

No. 37, and is road overseer of district No. 5.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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