Background
Holderby, Andrew Roberdeau was born on January 25, 1838 in St. Petersburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Andrew S. and Mary Caroline (Nichols) Holderby.
Holderby, Andrew Roberdeau was born on January 25, 1838 in St. Petersburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Andrew S. and Mary Caroline (Nichols) Holderby.
Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, 1856-1859. Medical student, 1859-1860. (Doctor of Divinity, Presbyterian College, South Carolina., 1893).
Enlisted in Company East, 12th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., April 21, 1861.
Served in field and military hospitals, St. Petersburg, Virginia. Wounded June 16, 1864, in 2d battle of St. Petersburg.
Surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, September, 1865.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1869. Pastor Tuskegee, Alabama, 1869-1880, Louisville, Kentucky, 1880-1882, in Tennessee, 1882-1884, Richmond, Virginia, 1884-1890, Moore Memorial Church, Atlanta, Georgia., 1890-1915. Doctor of Medicine Southern Medical College, Atlanta, 1893.
Organizer, 1893, and chief of staff Free Medical Church Dispensary.
President trustees Presbyterian Hospital, Atlanta, 1901-1909. Trustee Atlanta School of Medicine.
Surgeon-general on staff General B. H. Young, U.C.V.
Mason. Active for many years in Anti-Saloon League of Georgia.
Married Hattie Smith, of Prince Edward Company, Virginia, July 24, 1866.