Edgar Fuller Cousins was born on May 24, 1888 to Edgar Millard and Ella Maria (Burnham) Cousins in Westbrook, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1912 with a B.A. Edgar married Arline Brown in 1914. He worked for the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Co. in Old Town, Maine. Edgar Fuller Cousins died in 1983.