When Juan Jose Quilodran Munoz was born on 27 May 1871, in San José, Curanilahue, Arauco, Chile, his father, Pedro Nolasco Quilodran Loyola, was 40 and his mother, Transito Muñoz Uribe, was 4. He had at least 6 sons and 6 daughters with Maria Isabel Mora Betancour. He died in 1934, in Los Álamos, Concepción, Chile, at the age of 63.