When Pauline Curnow was born on 1 August 1884, in Lawrence, South Dakota, United States, her father, John Rapson Curnow, was 34 and her mother, Margaret Phillips, was 34. She married William Christianson on 29 May 1905. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died before 1980, in Lead, Lawrence, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 94.