Oxford history

Though declining immediate office after his return from Ireland, he was made chairman, in 1819, of the important currency commission that brought about a return to the gold standard.

The famous debating society, the Union Society was formed in 1823.

(Image: Merton College and chapel, from the first quadrangle, 1775-1827.

He returned to office under Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, early in 1828 as home secretary and leader of the House of Commons.

In 1829 he carried through the Metropolitan Police Act, which set up the first disciplined police force for the Greater London area.

Wellington’s declaration against parliamentary reform in November 1830 finally brought about the fall of his weak and unpopular government.

The Ashmolean Museum opened in 1845.

The Taylor Institution was built in 1854.

University Museum of Natural History opened in 1860.

The Clarendon Laboratory was built in 1872.

In the late 19th century Halls were built for female students (later they became colleges). Elizabeth Wordsworth founded Lady Margaret Hall for women in 1878.

Somerville College for women was founded in 1879.

James Wingate Sewall founded the consulting firm in 1880 to provide forest inventory, surveying, and mapping services to the lumber industry in northern Maine and Canada.

Pitt-Rivers museum was built in 1885.

St Hughs College was also founded in 1886.

In 1888, William Luke and three of his sons founded the Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company in West Piedmont, West Virginia, with the intention to produce wood pulp using the sulphite process.

St Hildas College was founded in 1893 by Dorothea Beale.

Campion Hall (Jesuit theological college) was founded in 1895.

In 1897, the various operations were consolidated to form the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.

Topographical map on lands in Grafton, Maine, by Austin Cary in 1899.

Map showing allotment and topography for this region of Oxford County in Maine by Austin Cary in 1901.

Topographical map showing land contours in this region of Oxford County, Maine, by Austin Cary in 1904.

The Bridge of Sighs was built in 1914.

In 1919, the company hired its first industrial forester, and over time expanded its forest management research.

1714). Among the university’s private halls are Blackfriars (founded 1921; inc.

In 1929, the company opened a headquarters office in New York City.

They had originally joined forces in 1934 by investing in a venture that produced and sold dictaphones and business forms.

Nuffield College was founded in 1937.

The brothers were casting about for an interim investment when, in 1942, a friend pointed them in the direction of Oxford of Atlanta, a small company that merchandised and sold mens' and boys' shirts and slacks, garnering about $1 million in annual sales.

In 1943 Oxford bought its first manufacturing facility, the Champion Garment Company, in Rome, Georgia, and the company name was promptly changed to the Oxford Manufacturing Company.

In 1944 the brothers were able to buy out their partners; the "temporary" investment had taken on a life of its own.

St Anthony’s College was founded in 1948.

By 1950 it had begun to lay the groundwork by opening a new 40,000-square-foot plant in Vidalia, as well as an office in New York City.

St Annes College was founded in 1952.

Oxford expanded into outerwear, denim clothing, and womens' shirts, and in 1956 it began to produce slacks for J.C. Penney.

By 1959 sales had reached $29 million (47 percent of this figure from pants sales), and J.C. Penney accounted for 44 percent of Oxford's total business.

When Oxford went public in 1960 with an offering of 240,000 class A common shares and began trading on the American Stock Exchange and the Philadelphia and Baltimore stock exchanges, the company had more than 3,000 employees and $31 million in sales.

In 1961 Oxford acquired Aansworth Shirt Makers, a womens' sportswear company, and renamed its product line Cos Cob, facilitating penetration into the womenswear market.

One of the men responsible for Oxford's tremendous growth in this period, President Tommy Lanier, was killed in a plane crash near Paris on June 3, 1962, in a disaster that also took the lives of many of Atlanta's civic leaders.

In 1963 sales increased $21 million to reach $61 million, and the company's stock split.

By 1964 Oxford was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

When Oxford moved its headquarters into a new 70,000-square-foot site in Atlanta in 1965, the company had grown to include more than 7,000 employees and had topped $81.7 million in net annual sales.

Expansion continued with a new 200,000-square-foot plant in Vidalia and a 125,000-square-foot slacks plant and distribution center in Monroe in 1966.

In 1967, Oxford Paper Company of Rumford and Mexico, Maine, was sold to Ethyl Corporation of Virginia that produced gas, chemicals and oil.

One of its first moves was to lease a plant in Agua Prieta, Mexico, directly across the border from its plant in Douglass, Arizona, in 1968.

In 1969, West Virginia Pulp and Paper changed its name to Westvaco to represent its diversified interests; by then it was producing not only a wide range of pulp and paper products, but also many specialty chemicals derived from pulp and papermaking processes.

The strong performance of the business products division--which in 1970 comprised 11 percent of revenue--helped cushion the effects of the apparel divisions' sluggish sales, which were blamed on inflation, rising unemployment, and continuing recession.

The first land swap occurred in December 1974 when the state exchanged certain parcels of scattered lots for consolidated parcels of land owned by Great Northern Paper Company.

A computer-operated pattern grading and marking system was introduced in the menswear division in 1976.

On July 1, 1977, Lanier Business Products was spun off as its own publicly held company and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

In 1978 sales to Sears and J.C. Penney accounted for 55 percent of the company's total sales.

The colleges and collegial institutions of the University of Oxford include All Souls (1438), Balliol (1263–68), Brasenose (1509), Christ Church (1546), Corpus Christi (1517), Exeter (1314), Green (1979), Harris Manchester (founded 1786; inc.

Another major acquisition was the Merona Sport Division of Merona Corporation in 1981.

In 1982 (the year in which Sartain Lanier retired as chairman and his son gained the post) sales increased $100 million over the previous year.

In 1983 Oxford became a Fortune 500 company.

Profits peaked in 1984 at $25 million.

Oxford's stunning growth ground to a halt in 1985 when earnings dropped 71 percent, to 64 cents a share.

Sales began to drop in the apparel market as a whole in 1989 and Oxford responded by paring down lines and reducing inventories.

In 1991 the Cos Cob and JBJ lines of womens' sportswear were discontinued, the loss of which cost Oxford $25 million.

In 1992 J.C. Penney comprised 24 percent of Oxford business, and sales had risen 4.3 percent from the previous year, after three years of reduced sales.

The global economic landscape is changing, and since 1994 OBG has been at the frontier of mapping new waves of emerging economies.

In 1996, the Rumford mill and accompanying woodlands were sold to the Mead Corporation of Dayton, Ohio.

In January 2002, Westvaco merged with the Mead Corporation, to form MeadWestvaco.

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