[1] In 1919 he opened an electric-supply business in the Northeast Los Angeles community of Highland Park, which he operated until December 1951.

[1][2] Holland died at the age of 76 on March 10, 1970, at Broadview Christian Science Sanitorium, Montecito Heights after an illness of several weeks.

[2] Holland took part in the successful 1938 reform bid of Superior Court Judge Fletcher Bowron to unseat Mayor Frank Shaw.

He was parsimonious in running his office, too, making do with just one field deputy, Art Snyder, when other members employed three assistants.

Holland's birth in Bartlett, Texas, was a talking point during a campaign over adding fluorides to the city's water, which he opposed as a Christian Scientist.

He seconded and voted in favor of a motion ordering a city study to see if the controversial Dictionary of American Slang violated state obscenity laws.