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Alfred Nevin was born on March 14, 1816 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the second son of Major David and Mary (Peirce) Nevin, a younger brother of Edwin H. Nevin, and first cousin of John Williamson Nevin.
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Alfred Nevin was born on March 14, 1816 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the second son of Major David and Mary (Peirce) Nevin, a younger brother of Edwin H. Nevin, and first cousin of John Williamson Nevin.
Nevin was educated at Jefferson College and at Judge Reed's law school, which was the law department of Dickinson College, receiving his degree in 1837. In 1837 Nevin was admitted to the bar, but appears not to have practised the profession, for he at once entered Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, graduating and being licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Carlisle in 1840.
For twenty years Nevin served in the pastorate, acquiring an experience of life and a wide acquaintance with other ministers which was invaluable in his later career as a writer, editor, and publisher in the religious field. His pastorates were at Cedar Grove, Pennsylvania, 1840-45; Chambersburg, where he served the German Lutheran Church, 1845-52; Second Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, 1852-57.
He resigned from the Alexander Church in order to edit and publish a weekly religious periodical, the Standard, at a period when such denominational papers were issued in large numbers throughout the country, and when many of them were financially profitable.
In 1866 ill health compelled him to relinquish control of the Standard and it was merged with the Northwestern Presbyterian.
After a time he published the Presbyterian Weekly, which in a few years became the Baltimore Presbyterian, and for a number of years, until 1880, he was editor-in-chief of the Presbyterian Journal, Philadelphia. Each of these papers has since passed through one or more changes in name and ownership, the Standard and the Journal now being represented by the Presbyterian Advance, published at Nashville, Tennessee.
During Nevin's editorship of the Standard he was also an army chaplain, serving at Satterlee General Hospital, Philadelphia, from November 1863 to July 1865.
He was a member of the first board of trustees of the Presbyterian Historical Society, of the state historical societies of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and of the Presbyterian Board of Education. While he was located at Lancaster he was elected moderator of the Synod of Pennsylvania, and he attended several of the annual sessions of the General Assembly as an elected commissioner.
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In 1841 Nevin married Sara, daughter of Robert Jenkins, of Lancaster.
