When Edwin Lawrence Wolcott was born on 28 September 1899, in Lakota, Kossuth, Iowa, United States, his father, Lawrence George Wolcott, was 23 and his mother, Ethel Verall Peshia, was 17. He married Josephine Anderson on 10 May 1924, in Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Algona, Kossuth, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Algona Township, Kossuth, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 20 June 1979, in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States.