New Catholic Encyc. (Fordham University; first called St. John's College, in honor of St. John the Baptist, opened June 24, 1841; April 10, 1846, N.Y. St. Legis. granted college power to confer lit. honors, degrees, and diplomas; June 1846 school placed under direction of Jesuits from St. Mary's, Kentucky, who had purchased the college property; on March 7, 1907, the charter of St. John's College was amended and the institution received the corporate name of Fordham University; the college of liberal arts remained St. John's College, Fordham University until Nov. 19, 1931, when it was renamed Fordham College)
NUCMC data from Library of Congress, Manuscript Div. for Mead, M. Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1980 (Fordham University)
