When Louis Chester Marion was born on 9 March 1878, in Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Chester Marion, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Green Thompson, was 25. He married Lula Dorothy Henriod on 21 May 1907, in Walla Walla, Washington, United States. He lived in Deschutes, Oregon, United States in 1935 and Brooklyn Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. He died on 5 December 1959, in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.