BIOGRAPHIES:   Nels SOLUM, Doyle Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  18 June 2005
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Nels Solum, one of the prominent farmers of Doyle Township, and manager of
the Campia Warehouse of the Albert Miller Potato Co., is one of the real
leaders in this vicinity. He is a good farmer and a good business man, he
understands the potato business in all its phases, he knows what is fair to
the grower, to the dealer and to the consumer and he stands high as a
citizen. He was born in Norway, April 16, 1866, son of Nels Nelson and
Nickolena Hovde, natives of that country, who spent the span of their years
there. He received his education and boyhood training in Norway, and came
to America in 1883 as a youth of seventeen years. For many years he was in
the employ of the Knapp, Stout & Co., part of the time in their lumber
camps, and part of the time as a clerk in their hardware store at Rice
Lake. During this period, his headquarters were at Rice Lake. In 1900 he
took up farming as a renter in Doyle Township. He bought his present farm
of 80 acres in Section 6, Doyle Township, to which he has since
successfully devoted much of his attention. When he purchased the place the
farm was but little developed. There was a log house and a few crude sheds,
and a few acres of breaking. He has built a good frame house, a commodious
barn, and other suitable buildings, and has developed the farm until it is
as good as can be found in the neighborhood. He carries on general farming
and pays particular attention to dairying with his herd of
Holstein-Friesian cattle. Aside from the home farm, he owns a similar tract
in the same section which is operated by his sons, Cyril and Harold. Mr.
Solum is a member of the Modern Woodmen. Mr. Solum was married in December,
1891, to Julia Evanson, of Maple Grove Township, who was born in Norway,
1865, daughter of Ole Evanson and Agnette (Christianson) Evanson. Mr. and
Mrs. Solum have nine children: Nora, Helen, Cyril, Harold, Griffin, Gladys
and Lester. Nora is the wife of Arnold Strand, of Doyle Township. Helen is
the wife of Arthur Strand, of Rice Lake Township. The family faith is that
of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 183.

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