Enoch Cobb Wines

Background

Wines, Enoch Cobb was born on February 17, 1806 in Hanover, New Jersey, United States. Son of William and Eleanor (Baldwin) Wines.

Education

After teaching for some years he studied theology and began to preach in 1849.

Career

Schoolmaster on frigate Constellation, 1829. Operated school for boys, Edgehill, New Jersey, 1832-circa 1838. Teacher People's College, Philadelphia, 1839-circa 1843.

Editor American Journal Education, circa 1845.

Ordained to ministry Congregational Church, 1849, pastor, Cornwall, Vermont, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, 1849-1853, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1853-1859. Professor classics Washington (Pennsylvania) College, 1853-1859.

President City College of Saint Louis, 1859-1861. Secretary Prison Association of New York, 1862-1879.

Visited prisons in all Northern states, 1865.

Issued report which recommended establishment of non-partisan board of commissioner independent of political control to plan permanent program of prison reform, also a system of graded prisons and parole system, 1867. Instrumental in drawing up program of Cincinnati Congress of prison reformers (became basis of prison reform movement in following generation), 1870. Secretary National Prison Association, 1870-1877.

Toured European prisons (as commissioner created by Congress), 1871.

Instrumental in summoning 1st International Penitentiary Congress, London, 1872. Author: The State of Prisons and Child Saving Institutions in the Civilized World, 1880.

Achievements

• Enoch Cobb Wines has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, penologist, college president by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The State of Prisons and of Child-Saving Institutions: In the Civilized World (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The State of Prisons and of Child-Saving Ins...)

  • The State of Prisons and of Child-Saving Institutions in the Civilized World

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Connections

Married Emma Stansbury, June 14, 1832, 7 sons including Frederick Howard.

Father:

William Wines

Mother:

Eleanor (Baldwin) Wines

Spouse:

Emma Stansbury