When Hyrum Edwin Anderson was born on 5 July 1881, in Göteborg, Göteborg Lundby, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, his father, Sven August Anderson Sr., was 34 and his mother, Margaret Abrahamson Persson, was 30. He married Dorothy Olsen on 1 July 1930. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Salt Lake City Ward 2, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 8 October 1962, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.