Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . tment in Boston, Mass., 1857; fitted for College atFewsmith School in Philadelphia ; graduated, Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, 1879 ; engaged in newspaper workin Philadelphia and New York for five years ; specialcourse in Princeton Graduate Dept., 1886 ; graduatedTheological Seminary, 1887 ; Pastor of Calvary Presby-terian Church at Riverton, N. J., 1887-90; AssociateEditor Sunday School Times, 1890-91 ; or
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . tment in Boston, Mass., 1857; fitted for College atFewsmith School in Philadelphia ; graduated, Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, 1879 ; engaged in newspaper workin Philadelphia and New York for five years ; specialcourse in Princeton Graduate Dept., 1886 ; graduatedTheological Seminary, 1887 ; Pastor of Calvary Presby-terian Church at Riverton, N. J., 1887-90; AssociateEditor Sunday School Times, 1890-91 ; organized SouthBroad Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, andis the Pastor there at the present time. CHARLES WORDSWORTH NEVIN, Clergy-man, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,February 27, 1857, son of Edwin Henry and RuthChanning (Little) Nevin. His father, Rev. E. , , was an author and poet, many ofwhose hymns have been published throughout .Amer- 358 UNIVERSiriES AND THEIR SONS ica, Europe and even in India. Through theNevins he traces his ancestry back to the Wallacefamily of Scotland. On the maternal side he isrelated to the Tenney, Cutter. Emerson and Chan-. W. ning families of New England. He received hisearly education at Fewsniith .School in Philadelphia,graduating as Valedictorian of his class in 1875,and went from there to the University of Pennsyl-vania, where he graduated in 1879, being awardedin competition the first English address at Com-mencement. For the next five years after leavingCollege he was engaged in newspaper work inPhiladelphia and New York. He then enteredupon a graduate course in philosophy with McCosh and in Hebrew with Professor W. and was graduated at the Princeton Theo-logical Seminary in 1887. In 1887-1890 he wasExaminer in Hebrew and Classics in the Presbyteryof Monmouth, New Jersey, and during the sameperiod was Pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Churchat Riverton, New Jersey. He was Associate Editor
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