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★ Oxford Tile CoPlant Here Closes(Continued From Page 1) chenware. The firm at one timeappears today over the vault in employed some 600 persons,the Oxford’s Tile Co. office. On Jan. 1, 1956, Oxford TileThe plant was expanded wa? established as a division ofI considerably and in 1925 passed Universal Potteries Inc.into the hands of a group of Oxford Tile Co. was ex-| Niles men, who operated it one fremely successful and enjoyedyearasTheGlobeChinaCo.lt a reputation as one of thewas then consolidated with The leading companies in theAtlas China Co., of Niles, and nat*on. Proof of its reputationthe resulting corporation was was illustrated when Searsnamed The Atlas Globe China Roebuck Co. awarded OxfordCo. its Excellence Award forThe plant was enlarged and Performance and Quality onmodernized, according to ^*ve different occasions. Sears Wolfe. Then came the some 20JXX1 suppliers, and depression of 1929 and the only a handful qualified for the company could not compete award, according to with cheaper foreign imports, knowledgeable sources.To satisfy creditors, The Atlas Oxford's Dinnerware Div.Globe China Co. was forced to was liquidated in 1961 and thej make an assignment in 1933, I'1111 concentrated on ceramicaccording to Wolfe. wall Me-Oxford Tile The company in 1963 becameAccording to Wolfe’s “Stories a Part ^e Mosaic Tile Co., of Guernsey County,” the formerly located at Zanesville, success of The Guernsey 1° 1®®®' Mosaic Tile Co. was Earthenware Co. prompted a stdd 1° ^e Marmon Group, ofI group of men to organize the Chicago, 111.Oxford Pottery Co. in 1913. 0xford Tile fas retained byWhile Wolfe places the date at Marmon Group, while the 1913 original stock certificates remainder of the Mosaic Co. shown to this writer by plants were disposed of. Lowrance indicate that the With Oxford’s closing Friday,company was founded March I*16 era ended.22, 1916. The first $100 stock ; certificate bears the name of, Charles F. Gross.I According to Wolfe, A.O.C.Ahrendts, who had obtained a i majority of the common stockof the Oxford Pottery Co., in 1934 changed its corporate title to Universal Potteries Inc.The capital structure of the company was increased and a large block of the new stock was purchased by the McClelland family of Barnesville. The new money thus obtained was used to purchase the properties of % The Atlas Globe China Co., which included the old Casey Guernsey ware Co.In 1935, the McClelland interests acquired control of the .. company and, with the late G.D.? Agnew, who had life-long ex-pericnce in the pottery 4 business, as manager,| proceeded to enlarge and •. modernize the plant, according f to Wolfe.It became one of the most modern potteries in the United H States and was classed as one of f the industry’s “Big Four.”Universal Potteries Inc. was 8e well-known throughout the *» nation and, according to Wolfe,oripinatprl nv*»n-wrnn? Vlt;t.
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 08, 1976
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