When Raymond Malcom MacPherson was born on 26 November 1903, in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States, his father, Murdock MacPherson, was 29 and his mother, Mary Pullin, was 28. He married Helen Blanche Stevenson on 3 September 1927, in King, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Portland City Election Precinct 319, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Portland, Washington, Oregon, United States in 1943. He died on 26 February 1977, in Gresham, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.