E. S. Wine, one of the early pioneers of Western Iowa, was born in Hardin County, Ohio, February 4, 1837. His father, William Wine, was born in Wheeling, Virginia, and reared in Ohio. He married Rachel Statts, a native of Pennsylvania, and they reared a family of eight children, of whom our subject was the third. When he was three years old his parents removed to Grant County, Indiana, where they lived four years, then removed to Lagrange County, same State, remaining there until our subject was sixteen years old. He was reared a farmer, and obtained his education in the common schools of his father’s district. At the age of sixteen he made a visit to the Western country. He first stopped at Des Moines, then but a small village, where he engaged in chopping wood and clearing the ground where the State capitol now stands. Lots could then be purchased for from $10 to $25. Here Mr. Wine lived until 1857; he then removed to Sac County, where his father had settled in July, 1855, when there were but eleven families in the county. He lived in Sac County about three years. He was married December 17, 1857, to Miss N. S. Montgomery, a native of Putnam County, Indiana. This was the first marriage on record in Sac County. In 1858 Mr. Wine removed to Linn County, Missouri, where he lived three years, then returned to Iowa, locating in Madison County. August 11, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and was engaged in the battle of Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River bridge, siege of Vicksburg, Fort Esperanza, Texas, Spanish Fort, Alabama, and in all the battles of the regiment. He was honorably discharged July 26, 1865, at Harrisburg, Texas, and returned to his home in Madison County. In the spring of 1866 he came to Carroll County and located upon his present farm in Union Township. He owns 154 acres of land, which at the time he bought it was in its wild state. He has improved it until the Wine farm in known as one of the best farms in the township. He has a good residence, built in 1878, at a cost of $1,000, a good barn and orchard. Mrs. Wine died July 22, 1877, having had five children, three were living and two were dead — Lucretia J., Isabella E., Ida May, Willard W. and James F. Mr. Wine was married to his present wife, formerly Mary P. Mulloy, September 23, 1879. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, a daughter of Francis and Mary Ann (White) Mulloy. At the age of nineteen years she married Coote C. Mulloy, and came to Carroll County in 1858. Mr. Mulloy died March 31, 1871. In 1860 he removed to Vermillion, Clay County, Dakota, and two years later went back to Ireland, where they lived four years, then returned and came to Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Mulloy had five children — Francis, Mary, Frances Margaret, Coote and Caroline. Politically Mr. Wine is a Republican. He is a man that is highly respected in his community.

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~