When Dorothy Brayton Anderson was born on 2 February 1889, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States, her father, Frederick Lincoln Anderson, was 26 and her mother, Gertrude Brayton Fuller, was 24. She married George Loring Thurlow on 28 September 1911, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Concord, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1935 and Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1940. She died in June 1965, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 76.