When Oscar Colone Ballinger was born on 3 October 1885, in Marion, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, Harvey Ballinger, was 35 and his mother, Viola Ellen Davis, was 28. He married Gertrude Edna Blankenhagen on 12 February 1908, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Walkerton, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States in 1960. In 1930, at the age of 45, his occupation is listed as accountant in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. He died on 13 March 1969, in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.