Peniel College

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Peniel College
Former names
Texas Holiness University, Peniel University
Type Private
Active1899–1920
Affiliation Nazarene
Location
Peniel
,
Texas
,
United States
Campus Rural

Peniel College was a Nazarene college located in Peniel, Texas. It has since closed.

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History

Texas Holiness University was founded by B. A. Cordell [1] and E. C. DeJernett in 1898. [2] It was then established on a 37-acre campus [3] in 1899 by A. M. Hills and a small holiness community at Holiness, later called Peniel and now part of Greenville, Texas. [4] It was sponsored by the Holiness Association of Texas, but the association disbanded in 1910 after many of its members united with the Church of the Nazarene. [5] The school then became one of the first three "official" Nazarene educational institutions in 1908, [4] supported by the Dallas District Church of the Nazarene, and the name was changed to Peniel College. [6] In 1920, the college merged with Oklahoma Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma, which was then renamed "Bethany-Peniel College". [5]

Peniel's presidents included A. M. Hills, Edgar Ellyson [7] (1907-1911), Roy T. Williams [3] (1911-1913), J. B. Chapman (1913-1918), [8] and A. K. Bracken, who took the presidency at Bethany-Peniel College in 1920. [9] [10] [11]

Legacy

Founded in 1909, Oklahoma Holiness College, called Oklahoma Nazarene College when it absorbed Peniel College, took on the founding date of Texas Holiness University (1899).

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Hunt County Historic Commission, Hunt County Historical Marker Descriptions: Peniel
  2. ↑ A&M Commerce Libraries, Northeast Texas History and Genealogy Center, W. Walworth Harrison Library: Texas Holiness University catalogue and prospectus 1910-1911
  3. 1 2 Southern Nazarene University: History of Texas Holiness University
  4. 1 2 Raser, Harold E. (1996). Thomas C. Hunt; James C. Carper (eds.). Religious Higher Education in the United States. Taylor & Francis. p. 550. ISBN   0-8153-1636-4.
  5. 1 2 "Why These Schools? Historical Perspectives on Nazarene Higher Education Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Holiness College
  7. ↑ A&M Commerce Libraries, Northeast Texas History and Genealogy Center, W. Walworth Harrison Library: Texas Holiness University faculty 1910-1911
  8. ↑ Spirit-Filled: The Life of James Blaine Chapman by David Shelby Corlett, Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press
  9. ↑ Yearbook of American Churches Covering the year 1916 by H. K. Carroll
  10. ↑ Yearbook of American Churches Covering the Year 1917 by Clyde F. Armitage
  11. ↑ Yearbook of American Churches Covering the Year 1918 by Clyde F. Armitage

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