Edgar Ellyson

Edgar Painter Ellyson (1869–1954) was a minister, theologian, and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

In 1907, he succeeded Aaron Merritt Hills as the president of Peniel College in Greenville, Texas.

Due to his sympathies with the Holiness movement and his living in nearby Greenville, Ellyson was at the Second General Assembly of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene in Pilot Point, Texas.

It placed emphasis on the basic themes of Holiness theology, and was later used by theologians like A. M. Hills and H. Orton Wiley as one of the foundations of their own thinking.

He was not in attendance and had to travel to Kansas City by train to address the General Assembly.