Robert Edgar Currier was born in Milford, Massachusetts on August 11, 1884. He moved to Black Mountain (Buncombe County) around 1914, where he worked for Perley and Crockett Lumber Co. and as an insurance agent. Currier also served as chief of the Black Mountain Fire Department and was the statistician for the North Carolina Fireman's Association. In 1925 he moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where he died on April 1, 1927.