When Truman Ellsworth Hulbert was born on 17 November 1883, in Lowville, Lewis, New York, United States, his father, Truman Hulbert, was 36 and his mother, Mary Olmstead, was 31. He married Ida Janett Duncan on 14 February 1914, in Harrisburg, Lewis, New York, United States. He lived in Lewis, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 7 May 1963, in Lowville, Lewis, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lowville, Lewis, New York, United States.