When Thomas Samuel Askey was born on 31 October 1890, in Winterburn, Huston Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Washington Askey, was 51 and his mother, Ellen Elizabeth Michler, was 39. He married Ruth Jeanette Curtiss on 6 August 1912, in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 11 September 1966, in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Loyalsock Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.