and is best known for her sculpture of Revolutionary War General Peter Muhlenberg in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.

[1] She was born at Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dr. John Williamson Nevin (1803–1886), a theologian, teacher, and minister, and Martha Jenkins.

She moved with her family to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1855, when her father became the president of Franklin & Marshall College.

[3] She exhibited a marble statue of Maud Muller at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

The grounds have three sculptures executed by Nevin, and they are contributing objects to the national historic district.