Winona College was a

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Winona Lake, Indiana Winona Lake is a town in Wayne Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana, and the major suburb of Warsaw. Its population was 4,908 at the 2010 census. Geography Winona Lake is now contiguous to Warsaw, the two towns having merged ...

. It was founded somewhere between 1902 and 1905. It consisted of a

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College and the Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute with the college and the Agricultural Institute at Winona Lake and the Winona Technical Institute at

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. Founded by John Breckenridge, its last graduating class was that of 1917. Although in the same town, it is not organically connected with

Grace College & Seminary Grace College & Grace Theological Seminary is a private evangelical Christian college in Winona Lake, Indiana. It comprises seven schools: The School of Ministry Studies, The School of Arts and Humanities, The School of Science and Engineeri ...

, an

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college affiliated with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.

Notable alumni

*Edwin William Schultz, (1888–1971), former

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of the Department of

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and

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* Clarence Hickman, inventor and contributor to the design of the

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during

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after the war, received a BA from Winona College AMICA 13, 5 (1976), Biography
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References

{{reflist Defunct private universities and colleges in Indiana Education in Kosciusko County, Indiana