Enoch Cobb Wines

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Dr. Enoch Cobb Wines
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Born(1806-02-17)17 February 1806
Hanover Township, NJ
Died(1879-12-10)10 December 1879
Resting placeLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
EducationMiddlebury College
Known forEducation, Prison Reform

Enoch Cobb Wines (February 17, 1806 – December 10, 1879) was an American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate. He was born at Hanover Township, New Jersey, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1827.[1] After teaching for some years he studied theology and began to preach in 1849. He served in a number of widely different positions in his lifetime. The foremost of them were: pastor at Cornwall, Vermont and East Hampton, Long Island; professor of languages in Washington College, Pennsylvania (1853); and president of St. Louis University in 1859. In 1862 he became secretary of the , and of the National Prison Association in 1870. In 1871–72 he organized in London the first international congress on .

Dr. Enoch Cobb Wines of the faculty of the Philadelphia Central High School from 1838 to 1841 became the first teacher of Ethics in an American High School in 1839. [2]

Amongst his publications are:

  • Two Years and a Half in the Navy (1832)
  • Hints on Popular Education (1838)
  • Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews (1852)
  • The Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada (1867)
  • Transactions of the National Congress on Penitentiary and reformatory Discipline (1871)
  • Report on the International Penitentiary Congress of London (1872)
  • Transactions of the Third National Prison Reform Congress (1874)
  • Transactions of the Fourth National Prison Congress (1877)
  • The Actual State of Prison Reform Throughout the Civilized World. Stockolm (1878)
  • State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions (1880)

References[]

  1. ^ Staff. "Dr. Wines Dead.; His Valuable Services In Behalf Of Prison Reform--The Books He Wrote.", The New York Times, December 11, 1879. Accessed February 23, 2011.
  2. ^ school, Philadelphia (Pa ) Central high (1922). Handbook of the Central High School of Philadelphia. Mary Gaston Barnwell foundation.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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