Algona College an American institution of higher education operated in the city of Algona, in Kossuth County, Iowa, between 1869 and 1875. The college was associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Iowa historian and author, Harvey Ingham, wrote a history of the college in 1925 and reported that the college closed due to financial difficulties resulting from a plague of locusts. Apparently families in the region could not continue to support the college when their crops were insufficient to support their own families. Ingham wrote that the Upper Des Moines newspaper reported on March 10, 1875 that Congress appropriated $150,000 for the purchase of seed grain for farmers in the devastated regions of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. Ingham wrote, “It is easy to see that soliciting for college endowments was not an encouraging prospect in the grasshopper years."