Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-01
WINES, CHARITY
EXPERT, IS DEAD
Had Been Secretary of Illinois
State Board for Over
Thirty Years.

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. Rev. DR..
Frederick Howard Wines died at his
home in this city yesterday. He was
statistician of the state board of adj
ministration and was formerly sec
rotary of the state board of public
charities and organized the state
board of charities of New Jersey.
Mr.. Wines was born in Philadel-
phia in 1898, the son of Rev. E. c..
Wines, clergyman, teacher, author and
philanthropist.
He was graduated in 1857 from
Washington (now Washington and
Jefferson) college in western Penn
professor. He was educated for the
ministry at Princeton, N. ]. During
the war he served as chaplain in the
regular army, and was stationed on
the frontier in southwest Missouri.
PASTOR AT CAPITAL.
At the close of the war he was
called to the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church of Springfield,
ILL.,, in which Abraham Lincoln was
pew holder, and four years later
was appointed secretary of the new
| ly created board of state commits
sioners of public charities, position
he occupied with single brief in
terval, for over 80 years.
During the period he filled the po-
sitions of president and secretary OF
| the National Prison association,
president of the National Conference
of Charities and Correction and ex-
pert special agent of the tenth Gen.
sus in 1880 for the collection and
| tabulation of statistics relating to
defective. dependent and delinquent
classes and of the 18th census in
1890, for the collection of statistics
relating to crime, pauperism and
! beneVolence.
SENT BY STATE TO STOCKHOLM.
Mr.. Wines was sent by the state
of Illinois as a delegate to the inter
national prison congress at Stock,
holm, Sweden, in 1878.
The hospital for the insane a
Kankakee, the first institution of IT!
class organized in the United States
upon the cottage or village system
was his creation.
He was a member of the commit
tee of so for the investigation O.
the liquor problem, and was the
author of Punishment and Reforma
ton; a Historical and Philosophical
Discussion of the Prison Question,
and joint author with John Koren o
"The Liquor Problem in It's Legis
lative Aspects"
He was a special lecturer in man.
colleges and universities, including
Harvard, Princeton and Johns Hop
kins, as we'll as before the Lowell
institute in Boston.
STATISTICAL ATLAS HIS IDEA.
His duties as secretary of the I'LL
nois board required him to. take a.
active part in shaping the Legislation
of Illinois concerning its unfor
Inmates, the subjects Of state care, a
well as in supervising the manage
ment of the state institutions includ
ing the auditing of their accounts
and the preparation of estimates TO
the biennial appropriations.
The Statistical Atlas of the Unite
States, first published in 1870, wa
his conception, and he furnishe
some of the statistical diagrams pub
lished in that work. Concerning tn
volume of statistics prepared by hir
for the 18th census, Professor Faull
ner Of the University of Pennsylvani
has stated, in an article published Il
the annals of the American Academ
of Political and Social Science:
mo more complete study OF poi
ulation groups than that given in TIL
volume exists anywhere to the writ
er's knowledge"
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