When William Andrew Luce was born in 1866, in Maine, United States, his father, William Henry Luce, was 27 and his mother, Eliza U Carleton, was 21. He married Alice Hortense Atkins Philbrick on 20 February 1892, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Scotland, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1924 and Newtonville, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. In 1930, at the age of 64, his occupation is listed as . He died on 4 May 1938, in Newton Corner, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.