When Richard Conway Toole was born on 15 January 1885, in Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States, his father, James Henry Toole, was 40 and his mother, Martha Louise Dexter, was 32. He married Hazel Josephine Matthew on 20 April 1912, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. He lived in Howard, Iowa, United States in 1895. He died on 4 December 1977, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 92.