William Judson Boone diary

Boone was a Presbyterian minister, educator, the founder of the College of Idaho in Caldwell, and president of that institution from 1891-1936. Born Canonsburg, PA in 1860, he received his education at different colleges in Ohio. Only one week after marrying Annie E. Jamison of Pittsburg, they arrived in Caldwell in 1887. In 1888 he organized the First Presbyterian Church and founded the College of Idaho (incorporated in 1893). Boone died July 8, 1936. He held memberships in the American Rose Society, Botanical Society of America, American Forestry Association, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu, the Masonic Lodge, and the Kiwanis Club.