Whitworth College Board of Trustees Records 1883-1970

Porterfield, Robert E.

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Gault, Franklin B.

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Edmiston, Robert L.

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Hutchison, A. L. (Rev.)

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Fox, Amos T. (Rev.)

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Whitworth, George Frederick, 1816-1907

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In 1853 George Whitworth, a minister in the Ohio Valley, set off for the Western frontier to establish a college that would provide a “good English education and a thorough religious training.” Fifty families joined his mission trek to the Northwest. By the time they reached Oregon, only Whitworth’s family had persisted. It was 30 years before he was able to revive his dream of establishing a college. “In 1883, in the village of Sumner, in Washington Territory, George Whitworth founded Sumner Ac...

MacKay, Donald D. (Rev.)

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Lindaman, Edward B.

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Biographical NoteEdward B. Lindaman (1920-1982) became president of Whitworth College in 1970 and retired in 1980. He came to Whitworth from North American Rockwell where he was director of programming for the Apollo space project. He was largely self-educated (he held an Associate in Arts degree from Mesabi Junior College, Eveleth, Minnesota, 1938) through extensive reading and study in many fields from theology and philosophy to science, technology and ⁰́₋futuristics.⁰́₊ His decade of administ...

Stone, George H.

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Barnhisel, A. H. (Rev.)

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McEachran, William L.

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Ferguson, Duncan S. (Duncan Sheldon), 1937-

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Whitworth College

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Whitworth College was founded officially on February 19, 1890. During the years 1987 and 1988 plans were made to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Of course, this celebration, all during the 1989 year, was an opportune time for a fund drive. (Timothy R. Eaton, B .A. ’74) was commissioned to produce a motion picture film, “Whitworth College” for promotion of the financial campaign. This file includes the many film clips used to make the film and the final product in various formats. Fr...

Robinson, Willard H. (Rev.)

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Beattie, Arthur Y.

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Simpson, Clarence J.

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Graves, Jay P., 1859-1948

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Boyd, Robert (Rev.)

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Arend, Albert K.

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Whitworth College Board of Trustees.

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The folders in this file recite the history of the administration of Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington, through the eyes of its board of trustees. The story begins with the founding of the Sumner Academy by George F. Whitworth and four of his colleagues on December 12, 1883. Following the move to Spokane on property donated by J. P. Graves, the minutes of the board continue the story to 1923 (Box 5). There is a gap in the record up to the coming of Frank F. Warren in 1940. The record the...

Koehler, Mark L. (Rev.)

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Stewart, Calvin W. (Rev.)

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Marr, C. E.

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McLeod, Murdoch (Rev.)

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Barry, Charles A., 1830-1892

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Kroeze, Barnard H. (Rev.)

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Bates, B. Scott (Rev.)

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Warren, Frank F.

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Frank Furniss Warren, son of Robert Hopkins and Alice May (Furniss) Warren, was born November 23, 1899 at Gilead, Michigan. His father was a clergyman of the Free Methodist Church. He received a B.A. from Seattle Pacific College in 1922, pursued religious training at the New York Biblical Seminary in 1922-23, and received an M. A. degree from Drew University in 1929. He was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1940. Warren was married in Seattle, Washington, June 2...