When Horatio H Schuyler was born on 27 February 1827, in Manheim, Herkimer, New York, United States, his father, Richard Fancher Schuyler, was 27 and his mother, Gertrude Vedder, was 19. He married Anna Snell on 25 May 1854, in Manheim, Herkimer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 8 January 1870, in Oppenheim, Oppenheim, Fulton, New York, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Manheim, Herkimer, New York, United States.