Enoch Cobb Wines, an American philanthropist, born in Hanover, N. J., Feb. 17, 1806. He graduated at Middlebury college in 1827, and taught school in St. Albans, Vt., Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D. C, in 1829 became teacher on board the United States ship Constellation, then taught in Princeton, N. J., Philadelphia, and Burlington, N. J. In 1849 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Cornwall, Vt., and in 1850 became pastor of the church at Easthampton, L. I. In 1854 he was appointed professor of ancient languages in Washington college, Pa., and in 1859 president of the city university of St. Louis. Since 1862, when he was appointed secretary of the New York prison association, he has been actively engaged in prison reform. Through his efforts a national prison association was formed at Cincinnati in 1870, of which he became secretary. In 1871 he went to Europe as a representative of the United States government to make arrangements for an international penitentiary congress, which met in London July 4,1872, composed of representatives of 26 governments.

It appointed a permanent international commission, of which Dr. Wines was chosen chairman, and which met at Brussels in 1874 and at Bruchsal in 1875, and has called a second international congress to meet at Stockholm in 1877. Besides several volumes of reports of the transactions of these bodies, and one on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada, he has published "Two Years and a Half in the American Navy" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1832), "Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews" (New York, 1852), "Adam and Christ" (1858), etc.