When Rutherford Burton Loper was born on 25 October 1886, in Mediapolis, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, his father, Ezra Cornelius Loper, was 36 and his mother, Clarinda Madie Haddix, was 33. He married Eva Hathaway on 1 November 1922, in Orange, California, United States. He lived in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States in 1930 and Newport Beach Judicial Township, Orange, California, United States in 1940. He died on 12 July 1963, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Anaheim, Orange, California, United States.