When Harold Ross Hinton was born on 18 July 1901, in Cessna, Bedford Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Wareham Hinton, was 42 and his mother, Etta B Crissman, was 39. He married Iva May Lose on 8 July 1924, in Windber, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in East Saint Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Windber, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 17 June 1985, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Richland Cemetery, Richland Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.