[2] His uncle, David Robert Bruce Nevin was a major in the Union Army and later an attorney from Philadelphia.

This near death experience played a key role in the remainder of Nevin's life as he would be described as full of energy, boundless, and never took anything for granted.

[2] Following his belated graduation in 1875 Nevin worked for a city attorney for two years before passing the Northampton County bar and opening his own law firm in 1877.

[2] Shortly after the sale was closed the Lafayette Traction Company, of which David was a principle shareholder, built the first electric trolley line up College hill in 1888.

[3][1] Shortly after in 1890 Nevin began developing the area around his inn into luxury villas and a neighborhood known as "Paxinosa Heights", the district is still intact today but is now known as "College Point".

The cause of the inn's destruction is credited to it being 600 ft above the Delaware River preventing firefighters from having a steady stream of water due to poor infrastructure and pumps at the time.

One of which, Nevin Park, hosted the city's original fountain from Easton's center square in 1899 after the erection of the soldier's monument that stands there today.

[2] Nevin would make it his top priority to shut down the city's 27 brothels in a manner that wouldn't be embarrassing to the women working in them.

[2] Near the end of his second term, local historian William Jacob Heller wrote that Nevin had contributed to Easton's development "perhaps more than any living man."