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Charles Alfred Holland (1872–1940), who went by Charles A. Holland, was a University of Southern California football captain, a businessman and a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1929 and 1931. ==Biography== Holland was born in 1872 in Girard, Kansas, the son of Ira A. Holland of Kentucky and Ursula Crowder of Tennessee. The death of his parents left him an orphan at the age of thirteen; he earned his own livelihood early on and put himself through the Academy and Park College in Parkville, Missouri.〔 He came to California in 1894 and enrolled at the University of Southern California to study electrical engineering.〔(Los Angeles Public Library reference file )〕 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.〔("Inter-Collegiate Athletics," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 3, 1899, page 10 )〕 He was secretary of the Athanasian Literary Society at the school〔("University Notes," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 29, 1899, page B-7 )〕 and was a member of Beta Kappa Upsilon fraternity.〔("Events in Society," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 26, 1901, page 13 )〕 Holland graduated in 1901,〔 and in September 1902, listing his age as thirty, he and Cora E. Spring, age twenty-six, were issued a marriage license.〔("Marriage Licenses," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 18, 1902, page 12 )〕 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.〔("Leases Bowling Alley," ''Los Angeles Times," June 5, 1910, page V-1 )〕 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.〔("Ex-Councilman Taken by Death," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 12, 1940, page A-12 )〕 In 1928 he was the president of the Northeast Optimist Club.〔("Optimists Will Install Officers," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 25, 1928, page A-14 )〕 Holland died of a heart attack on July 11, 1940, in his home at 126 North Avenue 54, Highland Park,〔(Location of the Holland home on ''Mapping L.A.'' )〕 leaving his wife, Cora, and two sons, Wendell and Kenneth, and a sister, Mattie Gooding. Burial was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles A. Holland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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