When Donald Phillip Talbott was born on 4 February 1905, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles Gaton Talbott, was 22 and his mother, Fannie Maude Burton, was 23. He married Helen Francis Smyser about 1929. He lived in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1930 and Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1940. He died on 22 August 1988, in Hyannis, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Island Pond Cemetery, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.