Albert G. Oxley

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Albert G. Oxley

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

During the five years that represent Mr. OXLEY’s residence in the United States he has, through sheer ambition and energy, risen to a high place on the ladder of success. He maintains his home at Morris Plains and there devotes his attention to real estate operations and to the contracting and building business. His interest in civic affairs is deep and sincere and he has done much to promote progress in his home community. His ancestry is of staunch English extraction and he was himself born in Essex county, England, the date of his nativity being May 11, 1882. He is a son of George and Anna Maria OXLEY, both of whom are living, their home being in Essex county, England, where the father is a real estate agent and contractor. The OXLEY family consists of three children, namely:

William, in business with his father;
Elsie, at the parental home;
Albert G., of this notice.

Albert George OXLEY passed his boyhood and youth on his native heath, and his early educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the public schools. For two years he was a student in Dr. Wharton’s College, at Welton-on-Naze, England, and at the age of fifteen years he began to work for his father, in whose employ he continued for the ensuing nine years. In his twenty-fourth year he began to travel and in 1908 he immigrated to the United States, landing in the city of New York, where he was engaged in the carpenter business for himself for a period of six months, at the expiration of which time he came to Morris Plains, this city having since represented his home. Shortly after his advent in this place he became associated with Mr. WILLIAMS in the contracting business as a member of the A. A. WILLIAMS Company. Subsequently he became interested in real estate operations and in recent years he has made a business of building and selling houses. He employs from fifteen to twenty men all the year around and is gradually increasing the scope of his operations. On his arrival in America he was possessed of but very little capital and his success to-day is purely representative of his inexhaustible energy and splendid initiative. As a real estate man he is greatly interested in all matters projected for the material improvement of Morris Plains and he gives freely of his time and means to furthering all enterprises of benefit to the general welfare. He is shrewd in business dealings but his fair and honorable methods have won him a host of true and enthusiastic friends.

In fraternal circles Mr. OXLEY is affiliated with Cincinnati Lodge, No. 3, F. and A. M., of Morristown. He is a member of the Welton-on-Naze Yacht Club in England and of the Morris Plains Tennis Club; and a director in the Hanover Building and Loan Association. Although reared in the faith of the Congregational church, in which his father is an elder, he is now a devout member of the Presbyterian church. In politics he is an Independent and he is not an office seeker, his time being taken up with his extensive business duties. Mr. OXLEY is unmarried.

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).