When George Russell Brundage was born on 2 October 1876, in Clare, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, his father, Charles Russell Brundage, was 54 and his mother, Mary Louise Bowhall, was 43. He married Minnie May Shippy on 4 January 1911, in Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1920 and Everett, Snohomish, Washington, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 October 1949, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Everett, Snohomish, Washington, United States.