When Alvin William Jacob Artz was born on 26 September 1899, in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States, his father, William Artz, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Margaret Hammer, was 23. He married Eleanor M Peterson on 26 January 1940, in Williams, Ohio, United States. He died on 23 November 1955, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States.