When Charles Herbert Austin was born on 16 May 1853, in Wytopitlock, Reed Plantation, Aroostook, Maine, United States, his father, James Austin, was 48 and his mother, Statira Scott, was 24. He married Effie L. Rollins in 1880, in Wytopitlock, Reed Plantation, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Molunkus Township, South Aroostook Territory, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1900 and Reed Plantation, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1912. He died on 4 September 1951, in Carmel, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 98.