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Nesmith, John – Nevin, Robert Jenkins

Nesmith, John

manufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 3, 1793, in Londonborn Aug. 3, 1793, in Londonderry, N. H. He secured the water supply of Winnipiseogee and Squam lakes for Lowell mills; secured site for city of Lawrence , Mass., and control of waterpower; and invented machines for making wire fences and shawl fringe. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1862.

He died Oct. 15, 1869, in Lowell, Mass.

Nettleton, Alured Bayard

soldier, was born Nov. 14, 1838, in Berlin, Ohio.

He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general.

Nettleton, Ashael

clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1783, in North Killingworth , Conn. From 1812 till 1822 he served as a revivalist in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. He compiled a book entitled Village Hymns. His Remains and Sermons were edited by Rev.

Bennet Tyler. He died May 16, 1844, in Windsor , Conn.

Nevada, Emma Wixom

singer, was born in 1861 in Nevada, Cal. She has an extensive repertoire, including prinpeared in oratorio in England. She sang cipally Italian operas, but she has also apin La Sonnambula at her first appearance in New York in 1884. man.

Neville, Joseph

soldier, congress- He was a revolutionary officer, brigadier of state militia, and commissionof state militia, and commissioner to run the boundary line between Virginia and Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1795. He died March 4, 1819, in Hardy county, Va.

Neville, Morgan

author, was born in 1756 in Pittsburg, Pa. He acquired a wide reputation by his tale of Mike Fink, the Last of the Boatmen, published in the Western Souvenir for 1829. He died in 1839 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Nevin, Alfred

clergyman, journalist, author, was born March 14, 1816, in Shippensburg, Pa. He was a prominent presbyterian clergyman and religious editor of Philadelphia; and the author of Words of Comfort for Doubting Hearts; The Voice of God; The Man of Faith; to Colonel Ingersoll; Christian's Rest; Guide to the Oracles; and Triumph He died in 1890.

Nevin, Blanche

sculptor, was born Sept. 25, 1841, in Mercersburg, Pa. In 25, 1841 , in Mercersburg, Pa.

In addition to numerous portrait-busts, she has executed statues of Maud Muller; Eve; Cinderella; and Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, which is in the capitol at Washington.

Nevin, David Robert Bruce

lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 28, 1828, in Shippensburg , Pa. For many years he was connected with the Philadelphia press; was assistant editor of the Presbyterian Encyclopædia; and publisher and editor of Continental Sketches of Distinguished Pennsylvanians.

Nevin, Edwin Henry

clergyman, author, poet, was born May 9, 1814, in Shippensburg, Pa. He is a German reformed clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The City of God; Humanity and Its Responsibilities; Thoughts About Christ; and The Minister's Handbook.

Nevin, George Balch

composer, author, was born March 15, 1859, in Shippensburg, Pa. He is the author of The Hills of God; At the Cross; and the Minster Song.

Nevin, Robert Jenkins

soldier, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1839, in Allegheny, Pa. In 1861-65 he served in the civil war, rising to the rank of captain and brevet major. Since 1869 he has been rector of St. Paul's American church in Rome, Italy, which he built.

He is the author of Reunion Conferences at Bonn; and St. Paul's within the Walls.