When Harold Lee Bronson was born on 5 August 1907, in Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, United States, his father, Frank Bronson, was 40 and his mother, Lucy Mary Longsworth, was 37. He married Jean Ann Neville on 28 September 1928, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Gaines, Genesee, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Detroit Ward 21, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 10 February 1978, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Gaines, Genesee, Michigan, United States.