When Roderick H. Scribner was born in 1911, in Oregon, United States, his father, Frederick Farnsworth Scribner, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Magee, was 29. He married Jane Bannister Kieser on 18 April 1938, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died in 1976, at the age of 65.