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Nevin, John Williamson

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 20, 1803, near Strasburg, Pa. He was an eminent German reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pa., and president of Franklin and Marshall college in 1866-76. Prior to his presidency he had been active as a theologian at Mercersburg, and his works form the basis of what is styled the Mercersburg Theology. He was the author of History and Genesis of the Heidelberg Catechism; The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The Anxious Bench; and Biblical Antiquities.

He died June 6, 1886, in Lancaster, Pa.