 Archie Musick was born January 19, 1902 in Kirksville, Missouri, to parents Levi Prince Musick and Zada (Goeghegan) Musick.He attended Kirksville schools and later Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now known as Truman State University.In 1947 he married Irene Kolodziej, who was head of the ceramics department at the University of Missouri Columbia, and they were the parents of two children, Patricia Ruth Musick and Daniel Barrett Musick.