When Lee Maynard Newell was born on 16 November 1879, in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, James Newell, was 50 and his mother, Mary Ann White, was 42. He lived in Winchendon, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. He died on 9 March 1901, in Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.