Enoch Cobb Wines
Dr. Enoch Cobb Wines | |
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Born | Hanover Township, NJ | 17 February 1806
Died | 10 December 1879 |
Resting place | Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA |
Education | Middlebury College |
Known for | Education, 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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ school, Philadelphia (Pa ) Central high (1922). Handbook of the Central High School of Philadelphia. Mary Gaston Barnwell foundation.
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- American theologians
- American educators
- American non-fiction writers
- Middlebury College alumni
- Penologists
- People from Hanover Township, New Jersey
- People from Cornwall, Vermont
- American Congregationalists
- 1806 births
- 1879 deaths