Career
He was a founding partner, with his brother-in-law Elihu Townsend, of the Wall Street brokerage firm Nevins, Townsend & Company
Nevins also invested in real estate, developing the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn with Charles Hoyt. He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. There is a street named for Russell H. Nevins that crosses the Brooklyn neighborhood of Boerum Hill, and the Item response theory Eastern Parkway Lincolnshire of the New York City Subway (2 3 4 5 trains) serve Nevins Street station.
