The son of Rev. John Williamson & Martha (Jenkins) Nevin, in 1860 he was a teacher living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He never married.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Lancaster July 21, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. C, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. On September 20, he was detached to the staff of Brig. Gen. Amiel Weeks Whipple and apparently never served with the regiment after that. Following Whipple's death on May 7, 1863, Nevin accompanied the general's body to his New Hampshire home. He honorably discharged from the 122nd Pennsylvania on May 15, 1863, the same day as everyone else in the regiment. He then enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 30, 1863, as captain of Independent Battery I, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery January 26, 1864. The battery then reassembled in Philadelphia as a three-year organization with Nevin as its captain, and he honorably discharged with the battery June 23, 1865. The War Department bestowed on him the honorary rank of brevet major to date March 13, 1865.
After the war, he studied theology in New York City and then assumed a pastorate in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He earned his L.L.D. in 1887 and became a world traveler, eventually settling in Rome, Italy, where he allegedly helped found the first Protestant church inside Rome's walls. He was a resident of Rome at the time of his death but died from "blood poisoning" and a "severe attack of malaria" during a vacation hunting trip to Mexico with two of his nephews. His obituaries appeared in a far reaching variety of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and British Columbia, Canada's Vancouver Daily World.
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A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Lancaster July 21, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. C, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. On September 20, he was detached to the staff of Brig. Gen. Amiel Weeks Whipple and apparently never served with the regiment after that. Following Whipple's death on May 7, 1863, Nevin accompanied the general's body to his New Hampshire home. He honorably discharged from the 122nd Pennsylvania on May 15, 1863, the same day as everyone else in the regiment. He then enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 30, 1863, as captain of Independent Battery I, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery January 26, 1864. The battery then reassembled in Philadelphia as a three-year organization with Nevin as its captain, and he honorably discharged with the battery June 23, 1865. The War Department bestowed on him the honorary rank of brevet major to date March 13, 1865.
After the war, he studied theology in New York City and then assumed a pastorate in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He earned his L.L.D. in 1887 and became a world traveler, eventually settling in Rome, Italy, where he allegedly helped found the first Protestant church inside Rome's walls. He was a resident of Rome at the time of his death but died from "blood poisoning" and a "severe attack of malaria" during a vacation hunting trip to Mexico with two of his nephews. His obituaries appeared in a far reaching variety of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and British Columbia, Canada's Vancouver Daily World.
Contributor:
Dennis Brandt - [email protected]
The son of Rev. John Williamson & Martha (Jenkins) Nevin, in 1860 he was a teacher living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He never married.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Lancaster July 21, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. C, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. On September 20, he was detached to the staff of Brig. Gen. Amiel Weeks Whipple and apparently never served with the regiment after that. Following Whipple's death on May 7, 1863, Nevin accompanied the general's body to his New Hampshire home. He honorably discharged from the 122nd Pennsylvania on May 15, 1863, the same day as everyone else in the regiment. He then enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 30, 1863, as captain of Independent Battery I, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery January 26, 1864. The battery then reassembled in Philadelphia as a three-year organization with Nevin as its captain, and he honorably discharged with the battery June 23, 1865. The War Department bestowed on him the honorary rank of brevet major to date March 13, 1865.
After the war, he studied theology in New York City and then assumed a pastorate in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He earned his L.L.D. in 1887 and became a world traveler, eventually settling in Rome, Italy, where he allegedly helped found the first Protestant church inside Rome's walls. He was a resident of Rome at the time of his death but died from "blood poisoning" and a "severe attack of malaria" during a vacation hunting trip to Mexico with two of his nephews. His obituaries appeared in a far reaching variety of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and British Columbia, Canada's Vancouver Daily World.
Contributor:
Dennis Brandt - [email protected]
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Lancaster July 21, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. C, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. On September 20, he was detached to the staff of Brig. Gen. Amiel Weeks Whipple and apparently never served with the regiment after that. Following Whipple's death on May 7, 1863, Nevin accompanied the general's body to his New Hampshire home. He honorably discharged from the 122nd Pennsylvania on May 15, 1863, the same day as everyone else in the regiment. He then enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg June 30, 1863, as captain of Independent Battery I, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and honorably discharged with the battery January 26, 1864. The battery then reassembled in Philadelphia as a three-year organization with Nevin as its captain, and he honorably discharged with the battery June 23, 1865. The War Department bestowed on him the honorary rank of brevet major to date March 13, 1865.
After the war, he studied theology in New York City and then assumed a pastorate in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He earned his L.L.D. in 1887 and became a world traveler, eventually settling in Rome, Italy, where he allegedly helped found the first Protestant church inside Rome's walls. He was a resident of Rome at the time of his death but died from "blood poisoning" and a "severe attack of malaria" during a vacation hunting trip to Mexico with two of his nephews. His obituaries appeared in a far reaching variety of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and British Columbia, Canada's Vancouver Daily World.
Contributor:
Dennis Brandt - [email protected]
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