When Pericles Pedro Alcantara De la Cruz was born on 22 July 1874, in San Antonio de Ocopa, Concepción, Junín, Peru, his father, Pericles Agustín Alcantara León, was 34 and his mother, Dorotea Grimaneza De la Cruz Poma, was 25. He married Brigida Bertha Anyosa Tello on 22 December 1899, in San Antonio de Ocopa, Concepción, Junín, Peru. He died on 12 November 1945, in his hometown, at the age of 71, and was buried in San Antonio de Ocopa, Concepción, Junín, Peru.