When Harold John McBride was born on 2 December 1910, in Logan, Kansas, United States, his father, John Albert McBride, was 34 and his mother, Ella Gertrude Kroeze, was 26. He married Mae Louise Durham on 10 November 1940, in Owosso, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States. He lived in Logansport Township, Logan, Kansas, United States in 1920. He died on 12 April 2003, in North Bend, Dodge, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Morse Bluff, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.