Chapter II. FOUNDATION STONE

  The effort to remove Miami University to Cincinnati is detailed in the Diamond Anniversary Volume, pp. 352-59. McBride's speech arguing that the University was permanently fixed in Oxford is included in The James McBride Manuscripts Relating to Miami University, pp. 45-79. A brief report of the infant Miami University and its enrollment appeared in the Philadelphia Register and National Recorder, June 12, 1819. Thomas J. Porter's History of the Presbyterian Church of Oxford, Ohio [1902] contains a biographical ske tch and a silhouette of James Hughes. Francis R. Gilmore's M.A. thesis James McBride (Miami University, 1952) contains a chapter on the important services that McBride performed for the early University. Verna E. Harcourt's M.A. thesis Pioneer Days of Oxford Township (Miami University, 1953) traces the development of the community to 1860. An account of James Dorsey and the "Rational Brethren of Oxford" by Ophia D. Smith appeared in the Miami University Bulletin, January 1946. The booklet Oxford Town, by R. J. McGinnis (Oxford, Ohio, 1930), contains sketches of early settlers, an 1828 list of householders and an account of the incorporation of the village. A reference to the former Indian mound on the site of present Stoddard Hall appears in the Miami Journal, May 1889.