Chris A. Sollin

Chris A. Sollin came to Valley City in 1881 from Sloan, Iowa. He was a pioneer railroad man and worked in the Valley City station baggage and express department for 35 years.

His wife, Emma Bakke, was born 1855 in Dane Co. Wisconsin. The year after the Civil War her family moved by prairie schooner to the vicinity of Sioux City, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood.

The Sollins were married in 1874 and came to Valley City in 1881. Ten children were born to this couple:

  1. May, (Mrs. A. T. Sherping 1874-1953);

  2. Mrs. George Selvig;

  3. Mrs. Earl Campbell;

  4. Mrs. Charles Stoddard;

  5. Mrs. Enzinger;

  6. Charles;

  7. E. Howard;

  8. Mrs. Augusta Healy and

  9. Kenneth who died at Camp Lewis in 1918.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 228