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author 20px 19 january 1979 san antonio , texas camp point , illinois united statesunited states of america distinguished bronze star medal service medal legion of merit -lrb- 2 -rrb- place of burial world war i world war ii 19 july 1891 gettysburg national cemetery 17px brigadier general arthur s. nevins.jpg arthur s. nevins
 arthur seymour nevins
arthur s. nevins

brigadier general arthur seymour nevins -lrb- july 19 , 1891 -- january 19 , 1979 -rrb- was a career army officer ; a close friend of dwight d. eisenhower ; and the manager of the eisenhower 's gettysburg farm .
nevins was born in illinois , and was a brother of allan nevins , the noted historian .
he joined the army in 1917 and served under dwight d. eisenhower in the philippines in the 1930s and in north africa and europe during world war ii .
nevins retired from the army in 1946 but continued to have frequent contacts with dwight d. eisenhower .
in 1950 dwight d. and mamie eisenhower bought a farm adjacent to the gettysburg battlefield , intending to use it as a place to live when they retired .
eisenhower was preparing to leave for europe where he had been appointed supreme commander of nato forces , so he hired nevins to manage the farm for him .
nevins moved to gettysburg in april 1951 and managed eisenhower 's farm until eisenhower retired from the presidency in 1961 .
nevins settled on an adjoining farm and remained a close friend of eisenhower until eisenhower 's death in 1969 .
soon after eisenhower 's death , general nevins began to write a book about their friendship .
in 1972 he provided the eisenhower presidential library with a copy of the rough draft of the manuscript , which he had titled `` looking back over more than fifty years of friendship with general eisenhower . ''
the book was eventually published in 1977 by carlton press of new york city under the title `` gettysburg 's five-star farmer . ''
