When Walter Cliff Dobson was born on 11 June 1886, in Rhode Island, United States, his father, Walter Cliff Dobson, was 24 and his mother, Ella Edith Crowell, was 18. He married Adele May Coane on 18 February 1909, in Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in West New York, Hudson, New Jersey, United States for about 20 years and Lincroft, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States in 2002. He died on 20 August 1969, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Tenafly, Palisades Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.