When Frank L. Buckler was born on 2 August 1878, in Williamson, Wayne, New York, United States, his father, Jacob C. Buckler, was 55 and his mother, Anna Wemsfelder, was 39. He married Ida Vandemeulen on 13 March 1901, in Williamson, Wayne, New York, United States. He lived in Village of Sodus, Sodus, Wayne, New York, United States in 1900. He died in 1955, in Marion, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Marion, Wayne, New York, United States.