ABSTRACT
Two institutions were united in 1932 to form Alderson-Broaddus College. The older of the two, Broaddus College, was founded in Winchester, Virginia, in 1871 by Edward Jefferson Willis who greatly admired the Reverend William Francis Ferguson Broaddus. The other institution, Alderson Junior College, was founded at Alderson, West Virginia, in 1901 by Emma Alderson as Alderson Academy. The financially depressed 1920s and 1930s brought the decision that the two colleges, both American Baptist supported, should be merged. Today Alderson-Broaddus is the only institution of higher education in West Virginia related to the American Baptist Churches, USA. 1
