When Alexander Herbison was born on 10 December 1882, in Mallorytown, Front of Yonge, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Herbison, was 43 and his mother, Rachael Anne White, was 27. He married Margaret Alice Horton on 19 December 1917, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1882. He died in 1971, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.