Robert Peebles Nevin

Background

Nevin, Robert Peebles was born in 1820 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Martha (McCracken) Nevin.

Education

Graduate Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College, 1842, A.M.

Career

Established Pittsburgh Daily Leader, 1870, Pittsburgh Times, 1880. Author: Black Robes, Sketches of Mission and Ministers on the Border and in the Wilderness. Les Trois Rois; Beautiful River and Other Poems.

Tracks of a Traveler, 1877-1878. and About a Dog, 1902. Address: Edgeworth, Pa.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Duncan Oliphant (died 1898).

Father:

John Nevin

Mother:

Martha (McCracken) Nevin

Spouse:

Elizabeth Duncan Oliphant