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Wines, Enoch Cobb

clergyman, philanthropist, author, was born Feb. 17, 1806, in Hanover, N. J. He was a congregational clergyman, widely known as a philanthropist, who labored extensively in behalf of prison reform. He was the author of Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip to China; Hints on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School; Commentaries on Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada; and State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions Throughout the World. He died Dec. 10, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass.

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