When Clinton Baker Scott was born on 8 January 1890, in Patch Grove, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Mark Mills Scott, was 39 and his mother, Alice Mary Warwick, was 38. He married Elsie Marie Ness on 2 April 1928, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. He lived in Eureka Township, Brookings, South Dakota, United States in 1910 and Wyalusing, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1920. He died on 28 November 1965, in Robbinsdale, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.