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<html> <head> <title>Oxford, MS</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Oxford, MS CITY Population: 11756 (2000 census)County: <a href="/geo/343/000142914/">Lafayette County</a> SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/553/000068349/">University of Mississippi</a></td><td><center>1848</center></td></tr></table> COMPANY HEADQUARTERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Company</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/company/938/000356867/">Fat Possum Records</a></td><td><center>1992</center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000140268/">Larry Brown</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-2004</tt></td> <td>Joe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000206516/">Naomi Sims</a></td> <td><center>Model</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Pioneering black supermodel</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000140268/">Larry Brown</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-2004</tt></td> <td>Joe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/040/000047896/">Barry Hannah</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-2010</tt></td> <td>High Lonesome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/102/000047958/">Augustus Baldwin Longstreet</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1790</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1870</tt></td> <td>Georgia Scenes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/401/000130011/">Jamie L. Whitten</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1995</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Mississippi, 1941-95</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=81544" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2017 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/664/000000664/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/664/664/s664.jpg" width=128> Anglo-American Power Axes</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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