[973] This person is presumed living.
[887] This person is presumed living.
_____________________
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_John IRWIN _________|
| (1823 - 1901) m 1846|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Frederick IRWIN
| (1859 - ....)
| _John NEVIN _________+
| | (1776 - 1829) m 1802
|_Martha Mary NEVIN __|
(1823 - 1888) m 1846|
|_Martha MCCRACKEN ___
(1779 - 1854) m 1802
_John NEVIN _________+
| (1776 - 1829) m 1802
_Theodore Hugh NEVIN _|
| (1815 - 1884) m 1842 |
| |_Martha MCCRACKEN ___
| (1779 - 1854) m 1802
|
|--Franklin Taylor NEVIN
| (1867 - 1939)
| _____________________
| |
|_Hannah IRWIN ________|
(1821 - 1899) m 1842 |
|_____________________
[113] Wrote the following works: "A Table of Descendants of MargaretWilliamson" 1898; Co-author of "A History of the Presbyterian Churchof Sewickley" 1914; "The Village of Sewickley" 1929.
_John NEVIN _________+
| (1776 - 1829) m 1802
_John Williamson NEVIN _|
| (1803 - 1886) m 1835 |
| |_Martha MCCRACKEN ___
| (1779 - 1854) m 1802
|
|--Martha Finley (Patty) NEVIN
| (1844 - 1918)
| _____________________
| |
|_Martha JENKINS ________|
(1805 - 1890) m 1835 |
|_____________________
_Theodore Hugh NEVIN _+
| (1815 - 1884) m 1842
_Theodore Herbert NEVIN _|
| (1855 - 1895) m 1881 |
| |_Hannah IRWIN ________+
| (1821 - 1899) m 1842
|
|--Ralph McKinney NEVIN
| (1882 - 1883)
| ______________________
| |
|_Rose MCKINNEY __________|
(1855 - 1933) m 1881 |
|______________________
[319] Died of tbc.
_Daniel NEVIN ________+
| (1744 - 1813) m 1770
_John NEVIN _________|
| (1776 - 1829) m 1802|
| |_Margaret WILLIAMSON _
| (1741 - 1822) m 1770
|
|--Robert Peebles NEVIN
| (1820 - 1908)
| ______________________
| |
|_Martha MCCRACKEN ___|
(1779 - 1854) m 1802|
|______________________
[48] John Denison Nevin writes, "He was a frequentcontributor to the'Atlantic Monthly', 'Knickerbocker Magazine', and 'Lippincotts'. Hisbest known books were: 'Tales of a Traveller'; 'Black Robes'; and 'LesTrois'."
[49]
John Denison Nevin extracted the following from the PittsburghGazzette Times 29 June 1908; "Mr. Nevin was possibly the firstPittsburgher to become interested in the refining of petroleum. Beforea well ever had been bored for oil he had begun the refining of thefluid. Back in the middle 50's Lewis Peters entered the store of T. H.Nevin & Co., and told young Robert of the queer smelling oil thatcame to the surface with the salt water from one of the Peterson wellsat Tarentum. The idea struck Nevin that this oil might make anilluminant. He subsequently obtained a supply from some other wellsnear Tarentum and the firm envested in a three-barrel still andcontracted for a supply of three barels of the oil a week. This wassold at 60 cents a gallon and the three barrel supply seemed likely tooverstock the market.
The still was set to work at the firm's lead plant in Allegheny in1855, three years before Col. Samuel Drake put down the first well inWatson's Flats, near Titusville, Pa. The selling of the oil was quitea problem, as there were no lamps suited to its use, but Mr. Nevintraveled about the Pittsburgh district arousing interest in hisventure. The oil gained a foothold, and finally decided it would be agood plan to buy a salt well for the oil it yielded.
He was joined in this venture by R. H. Davis and John Irwin Jr., ofSewickley. A good deal of prospecting was done, with little successand at great expense, and then came the winter of 1858-59, when ColDrake's first well was struck. Messrs Nevin and Davis decided that OilCreek was the place for them to go, holding that if Col Drake couldfind oil they could. They found that pretty much all the land in thevicinity of Col Drake's well had been leased before they reachedTitusville, but finally they secured an option on the McClintock farmfor $1000. Then they formed the Cornplanters' Oil Company, bought moreland and put down their first well.
The first well turned out rather an embarrassing success. Oil wasstruck at a depth of a few hundred feet, and the result was the firstflowing well that ever gushed forth oil upon the surface of thiscontinent. More oil poured out than the proprietors were prepared tohandle and the surplus ran down Oil Creek into the Allegheny River. Itcovered the water all the way to Pittsburgh, where the sight createdmuch excitement.
Three hundred barrels were brought to Pittsburgh and stored in thebasement of the Pennsylvania freight depot. A careless employeestarted a fire that with the help of the oil resulted in wiping ou thebig depot in a very short time.
The demand for the distilled oil kept on increasing, but Mr. Nevin didnot long continue in the business, for in 1858 the pioneer refinerywas sold to William McKeown."
A.C. Ferris, writing in the Pittsburgh Times, 27 December 1881, says:"A well was also bored expressly for petroleum before Drake in 1858,at Greensburg, Pa., by T. H. Nevin & Company, but after boring over400 feet they failed to strike oil, so that Col Drake, while being thesuccessful Oil Creek oil well borer, was not hte first in the field ofeffort."
[46] Sewickley Cemetery.
[47] Middle Spring Presbyterian Church.
[29] This person is presumed living.
[264] This person is presumed living.
[1090] Married by her father, Rev. E.H. Nevin.