When John Paul Home was born on 27 January 1883, in Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, John Richard Jones Home, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ann McCurdy, was 32. He married Bertha Maude Burrows on 25 November 1908, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 6 March 1945, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.