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 AVINDOM

WINGATE

Princess Anne. Mil..;uul was niarrieil to Maiy Sloss. He was a member and speaker of the Marylanil house of delegates; was elected by the Federalists governor of Maryland in 1812. serving by re-elections until 1815. and during his ad- ministration, although not in favor of the war, urgently petitioned for and secured an appropri- atii)n for the defense of Baltimore, advocated ob- ligatory military service in emergency and sent over 40,000 soldiers to the war. His last political service was as state senator, ISIG. He died in Baltimore. Md., July 1, 1819.

WINDOM, William, cabinet officer, was born ill Wall rtord, Ohio, May 10, 1827; son of Hez- ekiah and Mary (Spencer) "Windom. He attended tiie academy at Mt. Vernon, Ohio; was appren- ticed to a tailor at Frederickton, but later studied law in Knox county, and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He was prosecuting attornej' of Knox county, 1855-57; removed to "Winona, Minn., and was married in 1850. to Ellen P. Hatch of "Warwick, Mass. He was a Republican i-epresentative in the 3Cth-40th congresses, 1859- G9; was appointed U.S. senator, Dec. 5, 1870, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel .S. Norton, was elected for the full term January, 1871, and re-elected in 1877, .serving until 1881. He was chairman of the committees on appropria- tions and transportation routes to the seaboard. In March, 1881, he was appointed secretary of the treasury in President Garfield's cabinet, and served till the accession of Chester A. Arthur to the Presidential chair, in September, ISSl, wiien he resigned. On Oct. 26, 1881. he was re-elected U.S. senator to fill his own unexpired term, and in 1883 settled in New York city. He was a candidate for the Presidential nomination in 1880, 1884 and 1888, and was reappointed sec- retary of the treasury in President Harrison's cabinet in 1889. He died suddenly at the conclu- sion of an address at a banquet of the New York board of tra.le and transportation, held at New York city. Jan. 2.i. Is'.H.

WINES, Enoch Cobb, penologist, was born in Hanover, N.J., Feb. 17, 1806; son of William and Nellie (Baldwin) Wines, and a descendant of Barnabas Wines, a freeman of Watertown, jMass., lG"i5, and from 1044 deacon in the church at Southold, L.I., N.Y. He removed with his father, while still a child, toShoreham, Vt.; was graduated from Middlebury college, A.B., 1827, A.M., 1830; was principal of St. Albans (Vt.) acadeni}', 1827-30, and professor of matiiematics, U.S.N., being assigned to the Constellation, 1829- 31. He was married, June 14, 1832, to Emma, daughter of Arthur Joseph and Susan (Brown) Stansl)ury, then of Washington. D.C. He was principal of Edgehill school, Princeton, N.J., 1833-38; professor of languages, Central High

school, Pliiladeli>liia, Pa., 1838-44, and principal of a classical school in Burlington, N.J., 1844-48. He was licensed to preach as a Congregational minister in 1849; subsequently held charges in Cornwall, Vt., Eastiiampton, L.I., N.Y., and Prosi)erity, Pa.; was professor of ancient lan- guages in Washington (Pa.) college, 1853-59, and president of the City University of St. Louis. Mo., 1859-G2. He served as secretary of the New York Prison association, 1802-70, and was the origina- tor of the first National Prison congress, lield at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1870, which resulted in the organization of the National Prison association, of which he served as secretary until his death. He was one of three commissioners appointed by the state of New York, to investigate and rejtort upon the relation between prison and free labor, 1871; U.S. commissioner to organize an Inter- national Penitentiary congress at London, which met, July 4, 1872; chairman of the Permanent International Penitentiary commission of Brus- sels, Bruchsal and Stockholm, 1874, 1875 and 1877, respectively, and honorary president of the second International Penitentiary congress at Stockholm, 1878. He received the honorary de- gree of D.D. from Middlebury, 1853. He is the author of: Tivo Years and a Half in the Navy (1832); A Trip to China (1832); A Trip to Boston (1838); Letters to ScJiool Children; Hints on Popular Education (1838); How shall I Govern my School 9; Commentaries on the Laics of the Ancient Hebreics (1852); Adam and Christ (1855); Historical and Farewell Discourses (1859); Tlte True Penitent (1862); Regeneration (1863); The Promises (1865); Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada (1867); State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions (1880), and several essays and pamphlets. Dr. Wines died in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 10. 1879.

WINQATE, Paine, delegate and senator, was born in Amesbury, Mass.. May 14, 1739; son of the Rev. Paine (1703-1786) and Mary (Balch) Wingate; grandson of Col. Joshua (1679-1769), a soldier in the French and Indian war, who took part in the capture of Louisburg, and of his wife, Mary (Lunt) Wingate; great-grandson of John Wingate (1036-1087) of Do%'er, N.H., the first of the Wingates in America, who landed there be- foi-e 1058, and a descendant of John Balch, of Beverly, Mass. (1030). Paine Wingate was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1759. A.M., 1700; was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Dec. 14. 1703. He was married. May 23. 1765, to Eunice, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Wingate Pickering, of Salem. Mass., and sister of Col. Timothy Pickering of Washington's cabinet. He was pastor at Hampton Falls, N.H., 1763-76: en- gaged in farming at Stratham, N.H.; was a del- egate to the Continental congress, held at New