When George Ellsworth Edward Keeley was born on 1 August 1861, in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, his father, William Perry Keeley, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Twaddle, was 40. He married Margaret Estes on 23 October 1882. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 2 February 1935, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in San Francisco, California, United States.