When Henry Fredrick Buchholtz was born on 19 April 1871, in Fremont Township, Butler, Iowa, United States, his father, Diedrich William Buchholz, was 29 and his mother, Wilhemine Sinram, was 26. He married Elise Theodora Christina Dorothea DeBower on 8 March 1899. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Split Rock Township, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States in 1920. He died on 9 December 1948, in Hewitt, Todd, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hewitt, Todd, Minnesota, United States.