When Esther M Thorp was born on 19 March 1898, in Dover, Morris, New Jersey, United States, her father, George E Thorp, was 35 and her mother, Cora E Klock, was 31. She married Joseph Olin Curtis on 17 April 1922, in New Jersey, United States. She died on 27 April 1986, in Hackettstown, Warren, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Hackettstown, Warren, New Jersey, United States.