Background
Holland was born in 1872 in Girard, Kansas, the son of Ira A. Holland of Kentucky and Ursula Crowder of Tennessee.
Holland was born in 1872 in Girard, Kansas, the son of Ira A. Holland of Kentucky and Ursula Crowder of Tennessee.
He came to California in 1894 and enrolled at the University of Southern California to study electrical engineering. Five years later, he was elected captain of the football team in his junior (third) year, and his age was given as twenty-four, although he was actually about twenty-seven. He was 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighed 175 pounds.
He played center.
Holland graduated in 1901, and in September 1902, listing his age as thirty, he and Cora East. Spring, age twenty-six, were issued a marriage license. By 1910, Holland was a "dealer in gas and electrical supplies and fixtures," for on July 1 of that year he took possession of the leased store and basement at 756 South Hill Street from the Jesse H. Taylor Company. He later moved his business to North Broadway and also engaged in the real-estate and insurance business.
He was in the Masons and the Shriners.
In 1928 he was the president of the Northeast Optimist Club. Burial was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
Planning Commission
City Council.
He was secretary of the Athanasian Literary Society at the school and was a member of Beta Kappa Upsilon fraternity. Holland was a member of the city"s first planning commission in 1920, which at that time was composed of 51 members appointed by the City Council "to work out an organized, comprehensive plan of city development." Other notable members were Eugene Biscailuz, Chief Justice Colden, Evan Lewis and West.H. Workman Junior.