When Robert Charles Scank was born on 16 March 1898, in Tuxedo, Orange, New York, United States, his father, Charles A Scank, was 33 and his mother, May Chase, was 27. He married Gladys Elizabeth Martin on 22 April 1918, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1930 and Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States in 1940. He died on 12 January 1979, in Edison, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 80.