When Fremont Harrison Fegley was born on 27 June 1886, in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States, his father, Thomas Harrison Fegley, was 26 and his mother, Catherine Shunk, was 16. He married Mary Catherine Krumbach on 9 June 1906, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 14 May 1966, in Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States.