Arthur Orlando Albright was born around April 1867 in Indiana to William Orlando Albright and Alinda Wade. His father was a farmer and schoolteacher. The family probably moved to Iowa in the late 1860s, and by 1870, they were living in Porter, Michigan. They moved to Riverton, Michigan, in the 1870s, and by 1880, he was working on the family farm. He married Ome Curtis in Ludington, Michigan, on March 14, 1895, and their daughter Neva was born around 1900. They lived in Riverton until the early 1900s, when they moved to Boyne, Michigan. They moved to West Parker, Washington, in the 1910s, and then to Lexington, Washington, in the 1920s. He died in Longview, Washington, on June 28, 1937.