When John Irving Ashbrook Sr was born in July 1843, in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States, his father, Levi Louis ASHBROOK Sr, was 49 and his mother, Mary Polly Dooley, was 40. He married Emma Cross on 11 May 1865, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 3 January 1928, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.