When Ralph Atwater Hotchkiss was born on 5 June 1882, in Lewiston, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States, his father, George A Hotchkiss, was 32 and his mother, Kate Whitman, was 32. He married Maude M. Bedenkapp on 26 June 1912, in Niagara, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died in September 1964, in Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Lewiston, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States.