When Albert Monroe McLane was born on 25 December 1855, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Wiliam Robards McLane, was 23 and his mother, Mary Hulen Bourland, was 17. He married Orelsia Huggins on 30 May 1887, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Calloway, Kentucky, United States in 1855 and Spadra Township, Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died on 2 May 1905, at the age of 49, and was buried in Clarksville, Johnson, Arkansas, United States.