Arvid Bjurström was the father of Arvida. He had come with his mother and brother to the US in early 1900s where he met Arvidas mother Maria and they got married.  Arvid grew up in a little cottage in the woods outside Torphyttan, Lindesberg. (This is a place very close to where Johan Augusts children including Maria would spend a lot of time. Some of them would go to school there in the early 1900s. Marias older brother John started a school very close to Torphyttan (Dalskogen) and eventually several of the descendants would settle in the village of Nyhyttan close by where they still live- The Smars family)

He came from a family of several brothers. His father was partly working in the mining- industry and he and a couple of Arvids older brothers went over to the mines in the US and worked. Unfortunately the father died in a mining accident in the US and the mother and the siblings were left on their own. The brothers decided to take the family over to the US and so Arvid who was the little brother moved.