Lauren Sinclair Archibald was born October 17th, 1893, in Bovina Center, New York to Thomas A. Archibald and Anna Isabel Thomson Archibald. He attended Margaretville High School in New York and Rutgers College from 1913-1917, graduating with a B.S. in Agriculture. He married Mary Polhemus Voorhees September 28, 1918, and they had three sons, William Thomas Archibald, John Lauren Archibald, and Robert Voorhees Archibald, all of whom attended and graduated from Rutgers.
After graduating in 1917, Archibald joined the US Army and became a Field Artillery Second Lieutenant. Most of his military service was done at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was completed at the end of World War I. Between 1918 and 1926, Archibald taught agriculture at Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, NJ. In 1926 he became an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers School of Agriculture, and trained other agriculture teachers at the New Brunswick High School. In 1928, he completed an M.S. in Education, also at Rutgers. He died June 5th, 1946.
From the guide to the Guide to the Lauren Sinclair Archibald Collection, Rutgers College Class of 1917, 1915-1926, (Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives)
