When Edward Cannon Ashbaugh was born on 26 September 1867, in Perry, Ohio, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Ashbaugh, was 41 and his mother, Mary Cordelia Heyer Rudisell, was 31. He married Cora May Stanton on 31 January 1891, in Morrow, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in Eightmile, Morrow, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States for about 30 years. He died on 20 October 1953, in Benton, Oregon, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.