Whitman College is a private, independent, liberal arts and sciences college in Walla Walla, Washington. It was the first institution of higher learning in Washington.
The college is named in honor of missionary Marcus Whitman, who established an early medical mission and school near what is now the city of Walla Walla. The school was founded as Whitman Seminary in 1859 and was renamed Whitman College in 1883.
Well-known graduates of Whitman include Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Walter H. Brattain, who helped invent the transistor.
The college’s website at https://www.whitman.edu/ offers additional information.
