When Andrew Phillip Lamb was born on 31 August 1898, in Norton, Norton, Kansas, United States, his father, Albert Lamb, was 48 and his mother, Juliette Elizabeth Lough, was 37. He married Martha Ellen Bauguess on 14 June 1917, in Norton, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Portland, Washington, Oregon, United States in 1935 and Dairy Election Precinct, Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 22 May 1982, in Kelso, Cowlitz, Washington, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.