When Douglas Clyde Woodman was born on 27 March 1907, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Douglas Milligan Woodman, was 28 and his mother, Caroline Mae Sams, was 53. He married Dorothy E. Damon about 1931, in Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. He died on 21 August 1992, in Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 85.