NEVINVILLE
Nevinville, known thirty years ago as the New England village of Nevin, is a pleasant country town situated on high, rolling prairie, about thirteen miles northwest of Creston and seven miles west of Spaulding, the nearest railway station. It is in Adams county, close to the Union county line, and is a part of the territory of which Creston is the recognized trading center. The town is surrounded by an excellent grain and stock country, and a community noted for its thrift and prosperity.
The place was first settled in 1856-7 by colonists from New England, sent out by two Boston land speculators, Turner and Smith, who had previously entered 11,000 acres of land at that point to be colonized, and employed the settlers in furthering the general boom experienced in Iowa lands during those years. Since then the town's growth has been slow, but the surrounding country is now well settled by people from all parts of the country, and its former distinctive New England character has about disappeared. The Ellis, Jewett and Grant families still remain as representatives of those early years of pioneering.
Nevinville contains two pretty churches, the Methodist and Congregational, in charge of the Revs. Buckner and Wissler, respectively. A public school, two general stores, an agricultural implement house, two hotels, a blacksmith shop, one doctor, a postoffice. The Grand Army of the Republic is represented by a post here. There has never been a saloon in the place. A mail and passenger hack makes three trips to Creston and return each week.
DIRECTORY OF NEVINVILLE,
ADAMS COUNTY, AND VICINITY.
Austin Sam, farmer.
Ball F N, farmer.
Ball Henry, farmer.
Bebee S M, hotel.
Black William, farmer.
Bowar J, farmer and stockman.
Bowerbank T, farmer.
Brittan Mat, farmer.
Buckner Rev, pastor Methodist church.
Chrisinger John, farmer and bee cultivator.
Clark Dexter, farmer.
Congregational Church, Rev Wissler pastor.
Conrad Ed, clerk.
Conrad Horace, farmer.
Conrad John Rev, minister.
Cunningham G, farmer.
Curtis M, farmer.
Day C H, farmer.
Davison F R, farmer and sheep raiser.
Delaney Al, hotel.
Dodd D C, postmaster.
Ellis J L, farmer, nurseryman, and breeder Short Horn cattle.
Elsworth Ed, farmer.
Ford L, retired farmer.
Gessible George, farmer.
Grant G W, farmer.
Green F R, farmer and stockman.
Hathaway R, farmer.
Heflin J, farmer.
Henry J J, physician and surgeon.
Hicks Marion, farmer.
Horton J M, farmer and fruit raiser.
Hosier Sam, farmer.
Hoskins Ed, machinist.
Hoskins Joseph, painter.
Hoskins Joseph, miller.
Jewett O P, farmer and breeder of draft horses.
Jones John, farmer.
Joy William, retired farmer.
Klinginsmith J, farmer.
Knowles Lewis, retired merchant.
Knowles L F, agricultural implements.
Lewis E, farmer.
McLaughlin J, blacksmith and wagon maker.
Mayne John, farmer.
Merring, S W.
Methodist Church, Rev Buckner pastor.
Miner Charles, stock buyer.
Moore H P, farmer.
McKeen A, farmer and breeder of fine horses.
Nye & Joy, general store.
Pedigrew Jack, farmer.
Perkins E, farmer.
Peterson Ray, Nevinville and Creston mail and hack line.
Pierce E, shoemaker.
Scott David, retired farmer.
Steel M, carpenter.
Steel William, farmer.
Stephens Isem, farmer.
Stewart James, farmer.
Voorhees J A, stockman and farmer.
Wadell F, farmer.
Wallace & Co, general store.
Ware N D, farmer.
Welch N, farmer.
Whipple C H, farmer and fruit raiser.
Williamson C H, school teacher.
Williamson J M, farmer, breeder of fine sheep and poultry.
Williamson William, farmer.
Wissler Rev, pastor Congregational church.