Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Solliday, Albert 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.

The county of Walworth, and the towns of Cold Springs, Concord, Farmington, 
Hebron, Ixonia, Palmyra, Sullivan and Watertown, and the village of Palmyra, 
and the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh wards of the city of 
Watertown, in the county of Jefferson. Population, 1895—47,449.

ALBERT SOLLIDAY (Dem.), of Watertown, Jefferson county, was born in Lehigh 
county, Penn., February 13, 1841; was educated in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 
graduating from the high school at Circleville, Ohio, in 1861; enlisted in the 
one hundred and fourteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, August 11, 1862, 
and took part in the following engagements: Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, 
Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Black River Bridge, Siege of Vicksburg, siege and 
assault of Fort Blakeley; was mustered out of service at Houston, Tex., July 
31, 1865; came to Wisconsin in 1868, settled at Watertown, Wis.; is by 
occupation a dentist; served four years on the school board, part of time as 
its president; alderman one year, and mayor in 1884;served six years as captain 
of the Watertown Rifles; commissioned adjutant of the Second regiment, 
Wisconsin national guards, April 25, 1888; major commanding First battalion, 
Second regiment, Wisconsin national guards, February 23, 1892, and lieutenant 
colonel January 7, 1895; was elected on May 24, 1892, at special election to 
fill vacancy caused by the death of Walter S. Greene, and was re-elected in 
1894, receiving 5,611 votes against 5,236 for Edwin Huebert, republican, and 
326 for W. P. Stair, prohibitionist.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.



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