When Charles Henry Dove was born on 9 August 1896, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Henry Dove, was 27 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Critcheson, was 22. He married Jeanette I Finley in 1921, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 29 September 1974, in Westminster, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.