found: Its Directory of the faculty and employees 1961-1962, October 1961:cover (Maryland State College, Princess Anne, Maryland)
found: Toward closer ties, the University of Maryland System public service directory, 1988-1989, 1988:p. 34 (founded in 1886 as the Delaware Conference Academy; became Maryland State College in 1948; renamed the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 1970)
found: University of Maryland Eastern Shore WWW Home page, Oct. 3, 2001(University of Maryland Eastern Shore had its origin on Sept. 13, 1886 under the auspices of the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church it opened as the Delaware Conference Academy in Princess Anne; subsequently bore the title of Industrial Branch of Morgan State College, still under the influence of the Delaware Conference; as originally operated by Morgan State College under the control of the Methodist Church the institution was known as Princess Anne Academy; State of Maryland in operating its land-grant program at the Maryland Agricultural College at College Park, to which African Americans were not admitted as students, sought to provide a Land-Grant program for African Americans and assumed control of the Princess Anne Academy renaming it the Eastern Shore Branch of the Maryland Agricultural College; the arrangement was effected in 1919; 1926, the College passed into complete control and ownership of the State and the University of Maryland was designated as the administrative agency; 1948 the Eastern Shore Branch of the University of Maryland, popularly known as Princess Anne College, became officially Maryland State College, a division of the University of Maryland; on July 1, 1970, Maryland State College became the University of Maryland Eastern Shore)
notfound: NUCMC data from Delaware State University for William C. Jason papers, 1892-1900
