Background
Solether, Pliny Louis was born on January 17, 1887 in Jerry City, Ohio, United States. Son of John Calvin and Lydia Ann (Peters) Solether.
Solether, Pliny Louis was born on January 17, 1887 in Jerry City, Ohio, United States. Son of John Calvin and Lydia Ann (Peters) Solether.
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1910. Student Harvard, 1910-1911, University of Minnesota, 1911-1912.
Admitted to Minnesota bar, 1913. Associate with South. R. Child and Benjamin Drake, lawyers, Minneapolis, 1913-1924. Member firm Keyes, Pardee & Solether, 1924-1936, Keyes, Pardee, Solether & Carr.
1936-1942.
Chief counsel Office Price Administration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1942-1943. Trustee and counsel for trustees of Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway Company and Mineral Range Railroad Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 1943. Vice-president and secretary Duluth South. Shore & Atlantic Railroad Company.
Member American, Minnesota State (Chairman of Commission to procure amendment to state constitution removing stockholder’s liability clause, 1929-1931, Chairman of Commission to draft new business corporation act and secure its passage by legislature, 1931-1935) and Hennepin County bar associations, American Judicature Society.
Married Muriel Cadwell, September 12, 1912. Children: Grace Lydia (Mistress Olen C. Hudson), Margaret Ellen (Mistress Carl T. Johnson), Muriel Frances (Mistress Milton J. Hadreas), Mary Ellen (Mistress Robert East. Oestrich), Doris Jean (Mistress Martin North. Hase).