Gordon Balch Nevin
1892 — 1943
George Balch Nevin was an American composer and businessman. A member of the Nevin musical family, his cousins were the composers Ethelbert and Arthur Nevin; his son, Gordon Balch Nevin, also became a composer. His brother, David W. Nevin, was mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1920.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on George Balch Nevin.
From the period sources
According to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920), George Balch Nevin, born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1859, was a song-composer. He was noted as an “older relative” of the more widely known American composer Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin. This detail from the 1920 supplement provides a glimpse into a family connection within American music, highlighting Nevin’s specific contribution to the genre of song composition.