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Juniata College

Motto	Veritas Liberat (Latin)
Motto in English	Truth Sets Free
Type	Private liberal arts college
Established	1876
Affiliation	Church of the Brethren
Endowment	$95 million
President	James A. Troha, Ph.D.
Administrative staff	403
Undergraduates	1,626
Location	Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States
Campus	Rural, 800 acres (3.2 km2)
Colors	Old Gold & Yale Blue
Mascot	Eagles
Website	www.juniata.edu

Juniata College is a private liberal arts college in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1876 as a co-educational school, it was the first college started by members of the Church of the Brethren, who wanted to create a place where people could learn how to do many useful occupations of life. Today, Juniata has about 1,600 students from 42 states and territories and 45 countries.

The Huntingdon Normal School was established by a young Huntingdon physician, Dr. Andrew B. Brumbaugh, and his two cousins, Henry and John Brumbaugh. Henry provided a second-story room over his local print shop for classes, while John lodged and fed the college's first teacher, Jacob M. Zuck. Andrew was to "provide students and furniture". Juniata's first classes were held on April 17, 1876 with Zuck teaching Rebecca Cornelius, Maggie D. Miller, and Gaius M. Brumbaugh, the only son of Andrew Brumbaugh.

In 1877 the school changed its name to "Brethren Normal School." At this time Zuck also discussed adding a "Scientific Course" and issuing "Certificates of Graduation". In 1879, classes moved into Founder's Hall, the school's first permanent building on the present-day campus then only known as "The Building". On May 11 of same year, Jacob Zuck died from pneumonia when he insisted on sleeping in the then unfinished Founders Hall without a heater. James Quinter was than chosen to lead the school as the school's first president.

The college was renamed "Juniata College" in 1894 for the nearby Juniata River, one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River, due to a ruling at the Brethren Church's Annual Meeting against using the term "Brethren" in naming a school. The name Juniata College was made the schools legal name in 1896.

In 1895, Dr. Martin Grove Brumbaugh, an 1881 graduate from Huntingdon Normal, took over the active presidency of Juniata until 1910. During and after his tenure, Brumbaugh remained intimately connected to the college and reacquired the college's presidency in 1924, after having served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1915 to 1919 and as commissioner of education to Puerto Rico in 1900.

M. G. Brumbaugh died unexpectedly in 1930 while on vacation in Pinehurst, North Carolina and was succeeded in his presidency by a former pupil at Juniata, Dr. Charles Calvert Ellis.