Albert Solliday

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Albert A. Solliday (February 13, 1841 – December 13, 1924) was an American dentist, soldier, and Democratic politician from Wisconsin. Born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, he moved to Watertown, Wisconsin in 1868 to practice dentistry. He served on the Watertown school board and the City Council, and was the 24th mayor of Watertown from 1884 to 1886.

Solliday had a long military career. In the Civil War, he served as a musician with the 114th Ohio Infantry. He later joined the Wisconsin National Guard, eventually rising to lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. During the Spanish–American War, he mustered into federal service with the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry and fought in Puerto Rico, including operations in Ponce and Coamo. After the war, he was appointed Wisconsin’s quartermaster and commissary general with the rank of brigadier general, serving a little over two years.

In politics, Solliday was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in a 1892 special election to fill the seat of the late Walter S. Greene, representing Jefferson County as a Democrat. He won a full term in 1894 and served until 1899. He died at his home in Watertown and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. He was married to Elizabeth Jones in 1869; she died in 1908.