The S. B. Church Memorial Town Hall was built with funds from a bequest from Stephen B. Church, the founder of the Stephen B. Church Co, drillers of deep driven wells, and furnishers of water systems for towns.  Information on S. B. Church, below, is from the 1960 History of Oxford:

Stephen Betts Church, founder of the company was born August 15, 1866, son of John and Sarah M. Whiting Church. When he came to manhood, the farmers were turning to the use of power in their farming operations to save hand labor. As early as 1886, Mr. Church provided and installed horse driven forks which lifted hay from wagon to haymow. Later he became interested in the early gasoline engines, exhibiting the first to be shown at the Danbury Fair. He soon was selling them in quantities, with a store in Boston and salesmen traveling throughout New England.

Mr. Church soon sensed the need of the farmers for running water, and began the building and erection of wells operated by windpower, which pumped water from wells, springs or brooks to tanks on towers, thereby providing the necessary pressure. But as these windmills were decidedly limited both in capacity and steady power, he began drilling deep driven wells (often spoken of as "artesian wells"). Soon he was installing the present residential water supply systems consisting of a driven well pumped by an electric motor pump into a closed tank inside the house, thus providing air pressure to force the water into kitchens, bathrooms, and barns. .

By about 1923, demand came from factories for water in quantities not procurable from driven wells, and geologists pointed out that there were glacial deposits of sand and gravel in some places in New England which contained large quantities of water.

The Church Co. devised special equipment for testing for the presence of underground water and a method of sinking large caissons and constructing "gravel packed wells". These were packed with gravel inside of a circular screen made of highly corrosion resistant me'tal to filter out the sand. This type of well has also been furnished by the Church Co. to towns and cities for municipal water supplies, at a cost far below that of dams and storage reservoirs. It has come to form a large part of the business of the Church Co., serving factories, office buildings, and municipalities. In 1919, Mr. Church was visited by a young man who was selling farm machinery. This was Mr.Hubert E. Stoddard, who within a month entered the employ of the Church Co. as Engineer.

In July 1951, Mr. Church died and the control of the company passed to Mr. Stoddard who incorporated the business in 1952. Mr. Stoddard is retired and Mr. Wm S. Duncan is President and General Manager.

Much new equipment has been obtained, and special well development processes have been worked out, resulting in substantial water supplies for entire communities, some of them with several hundred houses. Further geological studies have revealed new sources of water supply, some of them at depths of from 500 to 800 feet. This water is very cold and is highly desirable for large air-conditioning installations as well as for municipal supplies.

A few years ago, a water company in Fairfield county proposed building a dam across Eight Mile Brook in Quaker Farms to create a reservoir of water, which would have flooded a large portion of that district. Much opposition to this scheme arose in Oxford, Middlebury, and Waterbury, some four hundred people appearing at the hearing before the Legislature Committee in Hartford. On the recommendation of the Church Co., test work was done for the water company on the Fairfield side of the Housatonic River. This resulted in the installation of several large diameter wells from which yields of over seven million gallons per day were obtained.

From the History of Oxford, Connecticut, Litchfield and Hoyt, 1960 (Available for sale by the Oxford Historical Society, Inc., at the Oxford Town Clerk's Office.)