When Harry Paul Lees was born on 30 October 1894, in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States, his father, Harry Judson Lees, was 31 and his mother, Lorena Maxwell, was 28. He married Nellie Dunham Adamson on 21 May 1922, in Independence, Montgomery, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Boone, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Chelsea, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 11 February 1972, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.