In June 1929, Dr. Hilarion T. Feliciano and his wife, Do?a Maria Mercado Feliciano, founded the Kolambugan Academy in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte as the first private high school in this part of the country. Two years later, the school site was transferred to Misamis (now Ozamiz City) so that the school could serve a bigger segment of the population. The school was renamed Misamis Institute.