Edgar Lucian Malvaney who spent a year at Washington University in St. Louis before joining WWI, returned to Jackson in 1919 to continue his studies before graduating from Washington University in 1922, and opening his own firm in 1931, designed the Woolfolk State Office Building and the War Memorial Building, both found in Jackson, Mississippi.
He spent one year at Mississippi A & M University before joining the American Expeditionary Force during World War I and serving in France and going over to France to fight during WWI. 
