When William Wallace Taylor was born on 18 December 1899, in Millview, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada, his father, Capt William Benjamin Taylor, was 41 and his mother, Prudence Amelia Drake, was 33. He married Elizabeth Margaret Beaton on 24 January 1922, in Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 16 January 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 69.