When Claude Wendle Boyer was born on 9 June 1887, in Marshall, Saline, Missouri, United States, his father, John Henry Boyer, was 44 and his mother, Sallie Ann Bagby, was 34. He married Almeda Jean Sloan on 8 July 1911, in Independence, Montgomery, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 8 January 1974, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86.