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Black-robes, or Sketches of Missions and Ministers in the Wilderness and on the Border
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Robert Peebles Nevin was an American journalist and pioneer oil-refiner. He was among the first, if not the first Pittsburgher to become interested in petroleum.
Background
Robert Peebles Nevin was born on July 31, 1820 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of John and Martha (McCracken) Nevin and a brother of John Williamson Nevin. While an infant he was taken by his parents to a farm in Cumberland County where the father died in Robert's ninth year. At the age of twelve the boy went to Chillicothe, Ohio, and subsequently lived at various times in Niles, Michigan, and Pittsburgh.
Education
Nevin received his elementary schooling partly at Chillicothe Academy, later attended Sewickley Academy, of which his brother, William M. Nevin, was in charge, and at length entered Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. (now Washington and Jefferson, Washington, Pennsylvania), from which he was graduated in 1842.
Career
Nevin entered into partnership with a brother as a dealer in drugs and white lead, at Pittsburgh, and was engaged in this business until 1870.
He had begun to write verse at the age of twelve, and he now devoted his leisure to writing poems and sketches for newspapers and magazines. He also became a correspondent of the Washington Reporter and during the presidential campaign of 1844 was one of the most popular writers of campaign songs, his "Our Nominee" being widely reprinted. Later he contributed several noteworthy articles to magazines, among them being "Stephen C. Foster and Negro Minstrelsy", and "Tom, the Tinker", dealing with a romantic character of the Whiskey Rebellion. He also wrote Black-Robes, or Sketches of Missions and Ministers in the Wilderness and on the Border (1872), taking up in order the Jesuit, Moravian, Methodist, and Presbyterian missionaries and ministers. In 1888 he published Les Trois Rois, in which he likened William Thaw (transportation), Andrew Carnegie (steel), and George Westinghouse, Jr. (natural gas), to the three magi of the early legend. During 1887-88 he published "Tracks of a Traveller" as a serial in the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1899 he made a collection of his poems, including verses written at the age of twelve, his campaign song, "Our Nominee, " and "Tracks of a Traveller, " which he published in a volume entitled The "Beautiful River" and Other Poems (1899). These verses are not remarkable in any sense; for the most part they were written for specific, local occasions and they have no universal appeal.
Retiring from the drug business in 1870, Nevin purchased an interest in the Weekly Leader, a Sunday paper, and as part owner and editor made it over into a daily newspaper.
Nevin died at his home, "Vineacre, " near Pittsburgh, just before reaching the age of eighty-eight, after two years' illness.
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Connections
His wife, Elizabeth Duncan Oliphant, whom he married on January 9, 1851, had died in 1898 was the daughter of General F. H. Oliphant, prominent in the iron trade. She was an accomplished musician, and one of her eight children (of whom four survived their father) was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin the composer.