College of Idaho

The College of Idaho is a liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1,010 students located in Caldwell, Idaho. From November 1991 until October 2007 it was known as Albertson College of Idaho. The college was conceived in 1884 when the Presbyterian Church's Wood River Presbytery, meeting in Shoshone, formed a commission to examine the possibility of establishing a Presbyterian college somewhere in the Idaho Territory. The commission found support for such a venture and in 1890 the Presbytery accepted an offer from a group of Caldwell citizens, led by William Judson Boone, to locate the institution in that community. The college was founded in 1891 by Dr. Rev. William Judson Boone with the support of the Wood River Presbytery. It first...