Arbaugh, William G., 1902-1974.

William George Arbaugh was on June 16, 1902, on a farm seven miles southeast of Goshen, Indiana, the son of the Rev. Dr. Alonzo Harvey Arbaugh and the former Nora Leone Bartholomew. He attended elementary schools in Chicago and Buckley, Illinois and in Mulberry, Indiana. His secondary education was obtained at the Weidner Institute in Mulberry and at Carthage College Academy in Carthage, Illinois. He was confirmed in Mulberry in 1916.

Arbaugh attended Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois, majoring in philosophy and receiving his A.B. degree in 1923. He then enrolled in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (Mount Airy), from which he received his B.D. degree in 1926. He was ordained at Grace Lutheran Church, Gary, Indiana, on November 10, 1926, and became a minister in the Michigan Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA). On June 26, 1926 he married Clara Emma Englehardt in Sharon, Wisconsin. Three children were born to this marriage: William Charles on April 27, 1927, who later became a Lutheran pastor; Nora Dorothy on August 3, 1929, later Mrs. Carl Zitzewitz; and Mary Margaret on October 4, 1937.

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