Individual Details

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1901 Yearbook
Junior Class Roll
Marvin Early Holderness, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, B. A., from Fordyce, AR
Class Historian '98-'99. Class President, '00-'01


World War I Draft Registration:
Marvin Early Holderness
5646 Kingsbury Blvd. St. Louis, MO
Age 41, Born May 4, 1877
Asst. Cashier at Third National Bank, Broadway & Olive St., St. Louis
Nearest relative: Eunice Jackson Holderness of the same address.
Signed with his signature: Marvin Early Holderness
Medium height, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair
12 Sep 1918

Dallas Morning News, 4 May 1919
Holderness Made Official of St. Louis Institution
Special to The News
St. Louis, Mo. May 3 - M. E. Holderness was made vice president of the Third National Bank of St. Louis at a recent meeting of the directors of the bank. Mr. Holderness has been connected with the Third National Bank for the last four years, in charge of the publicity and advertising department and the savings department, with the title of assistant cashier....

1920 Census. St. Louis Ward 28, MO
Marvin Holderness, 40, b. AR, Banker
Eunice, wife, 26, b. TN
Euunice, dau, 2 years, 6 months, b. TN

1930 Census. Clayton, St. Louis, MO, Hh 187
17 Wydoun Terrace
Marvin E. Holdiness, 41, married at 28, b. AR, Vice President, Bank
Eunice J., wife, 25, married at 22, b. TN
Marvin E., Jr, Son, 8, b. MO
Eunice J., Jr, dau, 12, b. TN
Katherine Yates, servant, 54, widow, married at 30, b. KY
Irene Williams, servant, 49, widow, married at 23, b. TN

1940 Census. Clayton, St. Louis, MO, Hh 17
Lived in same house in 1935
M. E. Holderness, no age stated, b. AR, Vice President, Bank
Eunice S., wife, 45, b. TN
Eunice J., dau, 22, b. TN
M. E., Jr., son, 18, b. MO

Author of Holderness book. Lived in St. Louis in 1941.

25 Apr 1942 World War II Draft Registration
Marvin Early Holderness of 17 Wydown Terrace, Clayton, St. Louis, MO, was 64, b. 4 May 1877 in Chambersville, AR. Personnel Office, 1st Natl Bank, St. Louis - would always know his address. Employer - 1st Natl Bank, St. Louis. 5'10 3/4", 184 lb. Gray eyes, gray hair.

1950 Census. St. Louis, St. Louis Co, MO, Hh 43
55 Lindell
Marvin Holderness, 66, b. AR, Office Work, Construction Business
Eunice, wife, 56, b. TN

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22 Jan 1975, Wednesday, p.24
Marvin E. Holderness Funeral; Civi Leader
Nashville, Tenn. Jan. 22
Funeral services were held here today for Marvin Early Holderness, long prominent as a bank executive in St. Louis, who died Monday at a convalescent home in Columbia, Tenn.
Mr. Holderness, 97 years old, was a vice presicent of the First National Bank in St. Louis from 1919 to 1946, when he retired. He had also been an officer of the Third National Bank in St. Louis.
....He was born in Fordyce, AR in 1877, the son of Algernon Sydney and Catherine Dixon Holderness. He prepared for college at the Little Rock Conference Training School and later became headmaster of that school. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1902 and became treasurer of the university from 1905 to 1907.
Mr. Holderness was one of the first officers of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the committee to receive Gen. Robert S. Baden-Powell when he arrived to establish the Boy Scouts in the U.S.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. William P. Ridley Jr., Columbia, TN; a son, Marvin E. Holderness Jr., New York City; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Buried Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson Co, TN with Eunice.

Birth	4 May 1877	Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas
Marriage	7 Oct 1916	Davidson County, Tennessee - Eunice Baxter Jackson
Death	20 Jan 1975	Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee

Spouse	Eunice Baxter Jackson (1893 - 1970)
Child	Eunice Jackson Holderness (1917 - 2007)
Child	Marvin E. Holderness Jr. (1921 - 1976)

Father	Algernon Sidney Holderness MD (1834 - 1904)
Mother	Catherine Barnes "Cattie" Dixon (1838 - 1928)
Sibling	George Dixon Holderness (1866 - 1891)
Sibling	Harry Iverson Holderness (1868 - 1950)
Sibling	Robert Thomas Holderness (1870 - 1910)
Sibling	Minnie Myrtle Holderness (1871 - 1950)
Sibling	William Thornton Holderness (1873 - 1889)
Sibling	Mariah Elizabeth "May" Holderness (1876 - 1904)
Sibling	Dr. James Sidney Holderness (1879 - 1951)
Sibling	Sarah Virginia Holderness (1881 - )