When Malcolm Walter Holtzman was born on 21 August 1893, in Riverside, Riverside, California, United States, his father, Walter Scott Holtzman, was 30 and his mother, Caroline Marie Douglass, was 22. He had at least 1 daughter with Bessie Svojtek. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935 and Bremerton Election Precinct 17, Kitsap, Washington, United States in 1940. He died in April 1963, in Montana, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States.