Benjamin O. Bird was the first leader (principal) of Delaware Conference Academy in Princess Anne, MD, a branch campus of Centenary Biblical Institute (later Morgan College) in Baltimore. The school quickly took on the more common name, Princess Anne Academy, which is reflected in official documents produced by Morgan College in that period.
Benjamin O. Bird was the first leader (principal) of Delaware Conference Academy in Princess Anne, MD, a branch campus of Centenary Biblical Institute (later Morgan College) in Baltimore. The school quickly took on the more common name, Princess Anne Academy, which is reflected in official documents produced by Morgan College in that period.
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God knows the way, he holds the key
He guides us with an unerring hand
Sometime with tearless eye we'll see
up there, some day, we'll understand
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This gravesite is located on the campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, which was known as the Delaware Conference Academy in 1886 when Mr. Bird and his wife, Portia, were the founding educators who opened the school.
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