When Claude Harold Robins was born on 10 July 1907, in Forgan, Beaver, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Robert Henry Robins, was 38 and his mother, Lottie Eretta Hoffman, was 33. He married Iva Josephine Potter on 17 December 1928, in Elkhart, Morton, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 18 April 1979, in Monte Vista, Rio Grande, Colorado, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Monte Vista, Rio Grande, Colorado, United States.