Milligan College is a Christian liberal arts college founded in 1866 located in Milligan College, Tennessee. The school has a student population of roughly 1000 students and is located just minutes from downtown Johnson City, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and the churches of Christ. The college offers bachelors and masters degrees in various fields of study.

The school began as an endeavor of the Rev. Wilson G. Barker and the Buffalo Creek Christian Church, a Disciples of Christ congregation located on Buffalo Creek in Carter County, Tennessee. While it began as a private secondary school known as the Buffalo Male and Female Institute, the institution was soon elevated to the collegiate level with the arrival of the Rev. Dr. Josephus Hopwood and his wife Sarah LaRue Hopwood. Hopwood, a Disciples of Christ minister and educator, came to the school with the understanding that it would become a liberal arts college to train leaders for the Disciples churches and the communities of Appalachia. The name was changed to Milligan College in 1885 in honor of Dr. Robert Milligan, a professor of Biblical Studies at the College of the Bible of Transylvania University/Kentucky University (now Lexington Theological Seminary. Hopwood continued to serve the school as president until 1903 when he left to found Virginia Christian College (now Lynchburg College) in Lynchburg, Virginia. He returned for an interim presidency in 1915.

The Rev. Dr. Henry Derthick's presidency is perhaps the most defining administration in the history of the college. He served from 1917 to 1940 and during this tenure the college grew and gained a reputation for excellence in the region. Derthick succeeded in bringing the college through the Great Depression.

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