Carey E. Nevin Biography


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CAREY E. NEVIN, editor and proprietor of the "Aurora County Standard", 
who has succeeded in his chosen vocation, is a native of Ohio, being 
born in Highland county, that state, November 15, 1860. His present 
home is in Plankinton, the county seat of Aurora county, South Dakota. 

Mr. Nevin began his newspaper career when but a boy fourteen years of 
age, and has advanced step by step, until today he is proprietor of one 
of the best papers in Dakota. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade 
on the "Shellsburg Record" and when nineteen years of age was engaged 
as foreman of the "Reinbeck Times" of Reinbeck, Iowa. His success as a 
newspaper man was assured and in 1882 he was engaged on the "Aurora 
County Standard", a Republican paper at Plankinton, South Dakota: The 
paper was then a new sheet, but its permanency was soon established 
under Mr. Nevin's mechanical management, and in 1896 he became sole 
owner of the paper. It has prospered with Mr. Nevin as its editor and 
proprietor and is known in newspaper circles as one of their brightest 
exchanges and its circulation extends throughout the northwest. 

Mr. Nevin has been fortunate in his choice of a companion, his marriage 
to Miss Cora Hallett occurring in 1896. Mrs. Nevin was deputy 
postmistress at Plankinton for eleven years prior to her marriage. 

Our subject's parents were William and Susan (Eckley) Nevin, who moved 
from Ohio in 1865 to Benton county, Iowa. In 1883 they settled in 
Dakota and the following year the father died at Huron, Dakota. Mr. 
Nevin's mother now resides in Oakland, California. She was the mother 
of ten children, of whom our subject is the eldest.