Reforme

AUTOGRAPH CREDENTIALS SIGNED by the 19th Century Prison Reformer ENOCH COBB WINES.

1871 · rif. 100858 — circa 1871-72. 1871-72. Very good. - Over 35 words by the American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate listing his credentials under his signature penned on a 4-1/8 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide sheet of paper. Signed "E.C. Wines" above his credentials "Secretary of the National Prison Association of America and Commissioner of the Government of the United States to arrange the preliminaries of an International Congress on the prevention and repression of crime including penal and reformatory treatment." Once mounted into an album with tape and glue stains on the verso including a spot rubbed raw. There is a tiny tear to the lower portion of the left edge. Very good. The American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate Enoch Cobb Wines 1806-1879 served as a pastor in Cornwall Vermont and East Hampton Long Island as well as a professor of languages at Pennsylvania's Washington College. He was appointed secretary of the New York Prison Association in 1862 and subsequently the National Prison Association in 1870. He organized the first international congress on prison discipline held in London in 1871-72. circa [1871-72].