When Wallace Walter Topp was born on 6 January 1909, in McHenry, Foster, North Dakota, United States, his father, Frederick Topp, was 29 and his mother, Carolyn Amelia Eller, was 28. He married Esther L Herrington after 1938, in North Dakota, United States. He lived in Eddy, North Dakota, United States in 1935 and Larrabee Township, Foster, North Dakota, United States in 1940. He died on 17 May 1991, in Foster, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Grace City, Foster, North Dakota, United States.