Floyd William Nease (1893–1930) was an American minister and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College until his death in 1930.
When he moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1919, he had completed most of the work for a doctor of bible at the Maclay College of Theology.
[1] During his time at ENC, Nease defended his petition to the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to give the college degree-granting power in that state.
Nease died months later in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 36,[3] of "acute pancreatitis, with heart failure following an operation."
At the time, he was engaged in a campaign to raise money for the college, including the erection of a new administration building, dedicated one month before.