Gideon Williamson (1898-1981) was a

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, president of Eastern Nazarene College (1936–1944), general president of the Nazarene Young People's Society (1932–1940), and general superintendent in the

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(1946–1968).

Biography

William was born February 20, 1898 in

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, converted and called to preach at an early age in the

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, and joined the

in 1919 when he graduated from John Fletcher College at

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.''Called Unto Holiness'' Vol. 2 by Westlake Taylor Purkiser. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1983.
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and

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. He pastored for 16 years, at the Austin Church in

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, the Cleveland First Church of the Nazarene in

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, and, after he left the presidency at Eastern Nazarene in

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, the First Church of the Nazarene in

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