When Michael Horst Nolt was born on 17 August 1898, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Michael Martin Nolt, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Weaver Horst, was 31. He died on 17 September 1898, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Weaverland Mennonite Cemetery, East Earl, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.