Alice Rachel Upson was born on August 2, 1837, in Kensington, Connecticut, to Gustavus Upson and Rachel Woodruff. Her father was a farmer who owned $5,000 of real estate and $900 of personal property in 1860. Alice grew up and attended school in Hartford County, Connecticut. Sometime in the 1860s, she married Jonathan Hart, a manufacturer who owned $12,000 of real estate and $30,000 of personal property. Their daughter Jennie was born around 1870. Jonathan died sometime after 1880, and she married Ralph R. Loveland around 1897. Loveland worked as a farmer in Middletown, Connecticut. Alice died in New Britain, Connecticut, on March 19, 1917.