Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-19
EARLY RESIDENT DEAD.
Edwin Urine, Former Harnessmaker Of
This City. Dies in Kansas.

EDWIN VlnO, FORMER n drneSsnak0r OF
This City, Dies in Kansas.
Relatives here have been advised OF
the death at Alton, Kan, of Edwin
Urine, former resident, and one of
the early harnessmakers of this city.
Mr.. Urine was "a nephew and name
sake of the late Edwin Urine, of this
city, and a cousin Of Mrs. John w.
Wells and Charles c. Urine. Death was
due to paralysis, following an illness
Of two years.
Coming here directly after the civil
war, in which he served with credit
as a member of the Twenty- second
Iowa, Mr.. Urine learned the harness
makers trade under his uncle, who was
then in business here Later he
worked for the late H. Willard and
Frederick Grumme, who were in the
harness business here. sand after few
years ran a branch, shop for the firm
in State Center. For time. also, Mr..
Urine was in charge of harness BUSH
ness at Albion.
Mr.. Urine was pioneer Of two
states. A native Of Cadiz. o., where
he was born May q, 1914, he came to
Iowa in an early day. settling at
Brighton. Washington county. When
the Kansas boom swept the country,
in the latter '70s, Mr.. Urine went to
that state, where he prospered and
acquired extensive land holdings
Mr.. Urine was a son Of Philip and
Jane Knox Urine. and thru his mother
was first cousin Of Ex-senator Phi
lander c. Knox. secretary of state dur
ing President Taft's administration.
Young Urine was IA when his people
settled at Brighton, an6 where Edwin
Urine lived until the outbreak of the
civil war. AT the age of 10, on Aug. g.,
1852, Mr.. Urine enlisted at Iowa City
in Company I, Twenty-second Iowa in
fantry. in which he served until July
25, 1856. Mr.. Urine was an eye witness
to the famous ride Of Gen. Phil Sherl-
dan from Winchester, and participated
in the siege Of viclsburg. In the lat
ter engagement Times brother. David
K Trine. . non-commissioned officer.
led q small body Of soldiers into the
fort, and captured the flag. David
Trine was wounded and left for dead
on tho field. Three balls passed thru
his hat, and all erased his head stun
ming him, but not 1njurtng him seri-
ously.
Edwin Trine came here in 1865, and
was here and at points In the county
until 1871. On Aug. 20 OF that year
Mr.. Trine took as his wife Miss Matte
A. Slower, Of Iowa City, the wedding
taking place at Aiarengo. Mr.. and Mrs.
Trine lived at Eldora for few years.
and IN 1878 went to Iowa City, where
they remained until they moved to
Kansas In 1879.
Aside from being in the implement
business short time, Mr.. Trine has
followed farming since he went to
and at the time of his death
owned 400 acres Of improved land. Mrs.
Urine died July /. 1908. and on May %.
1907. Mr.. Urine was united in marriage
with his wife's sister, Miss Euphemia
Slower, Of Iowa City. The latter sur
wives her husband, as do also two chill
dren of the first marriage. They are
Mrs. ]. E. Shoemaker. Of Mount Ster-
ling. Ill.,. and David Knox Urine, who
lives at home. Leonidas Orville. an
other son, died in infancy. A brother
and three sisters are living, in the per-
sons Of S. L. Urine, Of Gunnison. Colo;
Mrs. Mary T. Gray, Of Pickering. Mo-;
Mrs. George Siverly. of Lone Tree: and
Mrs. Jacob Ritter, OF Jennings, La.
Mr.. Trine's burial was with Masonic