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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OXFORD , a See also:

village in See also:Butler See also:county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., about 40 M. N.W. of See also:Cincinnati. Pop. (1900) 2009; (191o) 2017. Oxford is served by the Cincinnati, See also:Hamilton & See also:Dayton railway. It is the seat of See also:Miami University (co-educational; chartered in 1809, opened as a See also:grammar school in 1818, and organized as a See also:college in 1824), which had 40 instructors and 1076 students in 1909. At Oxford also are the Oxford College for See also:Women, chartered in 1906, an outgrowth, after various changes of name, of the Oxford See also:Female See also:Academy (1839); and the Western College for Women (chartered in 1904), an outgrowth of the Western Female See also:Seminary (opened in 1855). The first See also:settlement on the site was made about 1800.

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