Glenn Earl Eby was born February 22, 1898 in Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario to Menno (1869-1899) and Sarah Ann (1872-1902) Eby. He was a student at the Kitchener Collegiate and Technical Institute between 1913 and 1917, before enlisting with the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Forces on April 19, 1918 in London, Ontario. He married Elise Margueritt Bechtel on November 15, 1922 in Wentworth, Ontario and together they had three children. Eby died February 28, 1962 and was buried in the Blair Cemetery.