When Ziba Osmun Loreman was born on 26 March 1879, in Catawissa, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel Ellis Loreman, was 30 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Osmun, was 34. He married Mary May Harris on 6 July 1907, in King, Washington, United States. He lived in Franklin Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Thayer Township, York, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died on 9 April 1966, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Acacia Memorial Park, Lake Forest Park, King, Washington, United States.