Henry Coffin Nevins


Col. Henry Coffin Nevins was an industrialist from an established New England family in the city of Methuen, Massachusetts.

Nevins was the son of David Nevins, Sr., who was born in Salem, New Hampshire on December 12, 1809, to John Nevins and Achsah Nevins ne Swan. Henry Nevins mother was Elizabeth Eliza Coffin, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from the island of Nantucket named Jared Coffin. David Sr., who built his personal wealth through importing and manufacturing textiles, gained notoriety as the coowner of Pemberton Mill, the collapse of which in 1860 is likely the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history and one of the worst industrial calamities in American history.

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