When James Howard Wiseman was born on 4 August 1879, in Port-Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada, his father, George Alfred Wiseman, was 20 and his mother, Ellen Dea, was 20. He married Helena Byers Dow on 10 November 1915, in Montreal, Communauté urbaine de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He immigrated to United States in 1899 and lived in Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 3 July 1933, in East Farms, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Almo, Cassia, Idaho, United States.