When Arthur Christian Pehling was born on 14 August 1901, in Minnesota, United States, his father, Henry John Pehling, was 27 and his mother, Emma L. Langhorst, was 20. He married Norma Elizabeth Harms on 23 September 1924, in Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States. He lived in Sioux Agency Township, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States in 1910. He died on 10 December 1969, in Echo, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Echo, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States.