Career
Born in Ovid, New York, the Review Reuben Denton Nevius received in 1849 his Doctor of Divinity from Union College in Schenectady, New New York In 1850, Nevius went to Columbus, Georgia for further religious study.
After ordainment, he served as an Episcopalian priest in Wetumpka, Alabama.
In 1872, Nevius was given the ecclesiastical responsibility for a wide circuit in eastern Oregon, where he established seven new congregations. His circuit-riding responsibilities later included eastern Washington and Idaho.
He directed the building of many new churches, some of which are still standing. Asa Gray named the plant genus Neviusia in his honor.
There has been a controversy over assigning cr for the discovery of this genus.