When Jeremiah Peter Shields was born on 3 November 1880, in Tehachapi, Kern, California, United States, his father, Jeremiah A Shields, was 40 and his mother, Catherine Marie, was 38. He married Lillian Elizabeth Bowman on 26 May 1909. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States in 1920 and Judicial Township 6, Kern, California, United States in 1940. He died on 17 July 1963, in Kern, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States.