Ernest Herbert Doidge was the second son and third child of William Doidge and Mary Maria Veale. He was born on 3 Feb 1878 in Lakefield, ON. He attended school in Lakefield and was a student at the University of Toronto majoring in Engineering. In 1909 Ernest(Senior) moved to Saginaw, Michigan USA where he worked as a draftsman for Wicks Company.

On 26 Oct 1906 Ernest was married to Maude Detcher who was born in Peterborough in 1878. Their first child, a girl born Aug 1907 died in infancy. Maude and their son Ernest Harold, who was born in Peterborough district, arrived to join Ernest in April 1909. On 04 Aug 1909 little Harold died. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw.

Four more children were born to Ernest and Maude Doidge in Saginaw. They were: William Alan (born March 24 1910 in Saginaw and died August 21, 1973 in Midland, Michigan); Mary Margaret (January 23, 1912 and died on May 12 2006) She lived her whole life in Saginaw); Ernest “Ernie” Herbert Jr (August 17 1913 Saginaw and died on July 15, 2007 Saginaw, MI).

When Katherine Maude Doidge was born on June 5, 1916, in Michigan, her father, Ernest, was 38 and her mother, Maude, was 40. She married A. Vincent “Alexander” Picard on November 20, 1941, in Saginaw, Michigan. They had three children during their marriage. She died on February 6, 2002, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, at the age of 85.