When Warren Raymond Girton was born in February 1886, in Madison Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Albert Girton, was 39 and his mother, Gertrude Suplee, was 27. He married Bertha May Nordyke on 11 May 1912, in Watkins Glen, Dix, Schuyler, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 8 September 1978, in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 92.