When Ebenezer Herrick Dyer was born on 17 April 1822, in Sullivan, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Joshua Dyer, was 40 and his mother, Betsey Sawyer, was 33. He married Marion Wallace Ingalls on 15 June 1850, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Alvarado, Alameda, California, United States in 1880 and Washington Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 July 1910, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park, Hayward, Alameda, California, United States.