When Ernest Franklin Liter was born on 22 August 1860, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Elisha A. Liter, was 45 and his mother, Rachel Evaline Wayland, was 27. He married Mary C. Jones on 7 November 1883, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 14 January 1925, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.