When Benjamin Charles Tople was born on 7 February 1921, in South Dakota, United States, his father, Charles August Topel, was 37 and his mother, Nina Grace Morris, was 28. He married Evelyn Irene Wagner on 16 January 1941, in Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, United States. He lived in Day, South Dakota, United States in 1935 and Bristol, Day, South Dakota, United States in 1940. He died in March 1967, at the age of 46.