Enoch Cobb Wines
Author
1806 – 1879
Who was Enoch Cobb Wines?
Enoch Cobb Wines was an American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate. He was born at Hanover Township, New Jersey, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1827. 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; and president of St. Louis University in 1859. In 1862 he became secretary of the New York Prison Association, and of the National Prison Association in 1870. In 1871–72 he organized in London the first international congress on prison discipline. Amongst his publications are:
⁕Two Years and a Half in the Navy
⁕Hints on Popular Education
⁕Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews
⁕The Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada
⁕Transactions of the National Congress on Penitentiary and reformatory Discipline
⁕Report on the International Penitentiary Congress of London
⁕Transactions of the Third National Prison Reform Congress
We need you!
Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web!
- Born
- Feb 17, 1806
Hanover - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Middlebury College
- Lived in
- New Jersey
- Died
- 1879
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
Citation
Use the citation below to add to a bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Enoch Cobb Wines." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 8 May 2024. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/enoch_cobb_wines>.
Discuss this Enoch Cobb Wines biography with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In