When Charles Edward Havens was born on 6 May 1832, in Shelter Island, Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, United States, his father, Renesaleer Havens, was 59 and his mother, Catherine Cebra Webb, was 31. He married Mary Jane Tracy on 9 September 1855, in Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 7 March 1865, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 32.