Biography | Jensen Huang — The Kentucky Institute His Uncle Mistook for a Prep School

People treat Oregon State as the first American campus. The first school that kept him was here, at Oneida Baptist Institute, on Kentucky Route 11 in Clay County. In the autumn of 1973 a nine-year-old who spoke almost no English was enrolled by an aunt and uncle in Tacoma. They thought they had found a prestigious boarding school. James Anderson Burns had founded the place in 1899 to teach the children of feuding clans. By the 1970s it was still a Baptist work school in the hills. Huang later told a graduating class he scrubbed toilets and faced boys with pocket knives, and that he loved it. The campus still stands at Oneida, Kentucky, post office box 67. He did not graduate here. After about two years his parents reached the Pacific Northwest, saw the school, and pulled both sons out. The later filings list Oregon, Stanford and Santa Clara. The first American line is still this ridge above the South Fork of the Kentucky River. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Clay County hills above Oneida