When Harry Clinton McGonigle was born on 2 June 1878, in Perry, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Alfred McGonigle, was 45 and his mother, Nancy Ellen Brownawell, was 37. He married Edith Nancy Harding on 25 June 1910. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Montebello, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Montebello Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 8 April 1952, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.