History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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right ahead. The Oxford Union school is now one of the best organized
in the county and is under the superintendency of A. D. Dewill. The
building also houses a good township library, of which Nina Sutherland
is librarian.
Besides its fully-organized Union school, Oxford has a well-planned
and well-built plant for supplying the village with water and electric
light. The former is based on the direct pumping system and the supply is drawn from four wells. A small volunteer fire department affords
adequate fire protection.
OXFORD CHURCHES
Baptists. Methodists, Congregationalists, Catholics, Christians (Church
of Christ), Christian Scientists and Seventh-Day Adventists are all rep

OXFORD UNION SCHOOL

resented by organizations at Oxford. The Methodists were first in the
field; that is, the Farmington circuit, which formerly embraced Oxford
and was cultivated by Revs. J. F. Davidson and John Kensar.
The Church of Christ was not organized at Oxford until I862,
although the preachers of that faith were among the first in the township. The Congregationalists also had an early organization, and built
a church about I876. The latter now -number about fifty, although at
last accounts (October, I912), they had no settled pastor. Neither have
the Catholics any regular local pastor.
THE METHODISTS
The history of Methodism in Oxford township dates from the year
1834, and is principally based upon the recollections of some of the old