Extract from the 1860 Census:
Name: Arthur Van Eps
Age in 1860: 8
Estimated birth year: 1852
Birthplace: Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Relation to head-of-house: son
Home in 1860: Clinton, Macomb, Michigan
Post office: Mount Clemens
Occupation: attending school
Siblings living at home: John (age 10), Katherine (6), Ally (4), Belle (3), and Effie (2)
Census place: Clinton, Macomb, Michigan; Roll M653_553; Page: 761; Image: 335; Family History Library Film: 803553.
Date: 17 Aug 1860

Extract from the 1870 Census:
Name: Arthur E Van Eps
Age in 1870: 19
Estimated birth year: 1851
Birthplace: Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Relation to head-of-house: son
Home in 1870: Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan
Post office: Mount Clemens
Occupation: clerk in store
Siblings living at home: Frank (age 20), Alla (14), Katherine E (13), Ada B (12), Effie M (10), and Maud M (7)
Census place: Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan; Roll: M593_688; Page: 385; Image: 209
Date: 2 Aug 1870

Extract from the 1880 Census:
Name: Arthur Van Eps
Age: 29
Estimated birth year: 1851
Birthplace: Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head-of-household: son
Home in 1880: Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan
Marital status: single
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: New York
Occupation: tanner & currier
Siblings living at home: Kate R (age 26) and Maude (17)
Census place: Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan; Roll: T9_592; Family History Film: 1254592; Page: 397.1000; Enumeration District: 204; Image: 0798
Date: 16 Jun 1880

Extract from the 1900 Census:
Name: Arthur Van Eps
Age at last birthday: 49
Date of birth: March 1851
Birthplace: Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head-of-house: head
Home in 1900: Mount Clemens Ward 3, Macomb, Michigan
Address: 212 Gratiot Avenue
Marital status: married
Number of years of marriage: 19
Able to read, write and speak English: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: New York
Home owned or rented: owned
Farm or home: home
Mortgage: yes
Occupation: insurance agent
Months not employed: 0
Census place: Mount Clemens Ward 3, Macomb, Michigan; Roll: T623 727; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 62
Date: 2 Jun 1900

Extract from the 1910 Census:
Name: Arthur E Van Eps
Age in 1910: 59
Estimated birth year: 1851
Birthplace: Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head of family: head
Home in 1910: Mount Clemens Ward 3, Macomb, Michigan
Address: 212 Gratiot Avenue
Marital status: married
Number of years of present marriage: 29
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: New York
Farm or house: house
Home owned or rented: owned; has mortgage
Occupation: agent
Type of industry: insurance
Salary or wage worker: wages
Census place: Mount Clemens Ward 3, Macomb, Michigan; Roll: T624_659; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 73; Image: 265
Date: 18 Apr 1910

Extract from the 1920 Census:
Name: Arthur Van Eps
Age: 68
Estimated birth year: 1852
Birthplace: Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head of house: head
Home in 1920: Mount Clemens Ward 3, Macomb, Macomb, Michigan
Address: 210 North Gratiot Street
Marital status: married
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: New York
Home owned or rented: owned; no mortgage
Occupation: abstractor
Type of industry: abstract office
Salary or wage worker: employer
Census place: Mount Clemens Ward 3, Macomb, Michigan; Roll: T625_782; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 78; Image: 8
Date: 6 Jan 1920

Extract from "History of Macomb County, Michigan" compiled by Michael A. Leeson, published 1882: Arthur E. Van Eps, son of John E. Van Eps, was born at Mt. Clemens March 5, 1851. He was educated in the schools of the village; learned the tanner's trade at his father's works, and continues the manufacture of leather in the large brick tannery of Van Eps & Co. Mr. Van Eps was married, October 28, 1880, to Miss Hattie M. Church, daughter of Haswell Church, an old settler of Macomb Township.

Extract from "Past and Present of Macomb County, Michigan" by Robert F. Eldredge, 1906:
Arthur E. Van Eps, who is engaged in the abstract and fire insurance business in Mount Clemens, was born in this city, March 5, 1851. He comes of an old family of Holland ancestry, the original representatives of the family in America having settled on the Hudson river in New York. His paternal grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812. The father, John E. Van Eps, was a native of the Empire state and came to Michigan in 1814, settling in Mount Clemens. He was a harnessmaker by trade and in connection with his business in that line also carried a line of shoes. He likewise conducted a tannery for some years, and was a partner in the general store of Traver, Van Eps & Company. He is now living retired. He was married after his removal to Mount Clemens, Miss Ada Traver becoming his wife. She, too, was a native of New York. Mr. Van Eps has been prominent in community affairs and at one time was mayor of Mount Clemens. He has now reached the advanced age of eighty-three years, his birth having occurred in 1822.
Arthur E. Van Eps began his education in the primary schools of Mount Clemens and advanced through successive grades until he became a high school student. In early life he learned the trade of tanner and currier and continued at that business until twenty-one years of age, a part of the time carrying on work on his own account. In 1879, the year in which Mount Clemens was incorporated as a city, he was elected the first supervisor and held that position for twelve consecutive years. In 1886 he was chosen register of deeds and served for four years in that office. He was also city clerk for three years and in these various positions discharged his duties with promptness and fidelity. In politics
he is a democrat and is deeply interested in the success and growth of his party.
While still holding office Mr. Van Eps embarked in his present line of business, turning his attention to abstracting and fire insurance in 1887. He is now a partner of Trangott Lungershausen, under the firm style of Lungershausen & Van Eps. This relation was been maintained continuously for eighteen years and the firm has the original and only set of abstract books in the county, it having been prepared by Major Alonzo Keeler while he was register of deeds. They have a good business which is continually growing.
On the 28th of October, 1880, Mr. Van Eps was married to Miss Hattie M. Church, a daughter of Haswell and Mary A. (Davis) Church, who were natives of Vermont. Her father served as sheriff of Macomb county for four years and it was in Macomb county that Mrs. Van Eps was born. She has become the mother of one daughter, Alla, who is now a teacher in Mount Clemens.
Mr. Van Eps is a charter member of Mount Clemens lodge, No. 168, K. P. He was master in Mount Clemens lodge, No. 6, A. F. & A. M., in 1879 and 1880, and was high priest of Mount Clemens chapter, R. A. M.. for fifteen years; a member of Mount Clemens council, No. 8, R. & S. M., and in 1878 was a member of Romeo commandery, No. 6, K. T. He also belongs to the Knights of Maccabees. Mr. Van Eps is always approachable, according to every one the courtesy of an interview, and his own success never alters in any degree his feeling for those less fortunate.

Extract from Michigan death certificate:
Name: Arthur E Van Eps
Age: 79 years 6 months 8 days
Birth date: 5 Mar 1851
Birthplace: Mount Clemens, Michigan
Race: white
Sex: male
Marital status: widower of Hattie M Church
Address: 2246 La Salle Gardens North, Detroit, Michigan
Occupation: abstract work, Macomb County Abstract Company
Death date: 13 Sep 1930
Death place: 2246 La Salle Gardens North, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Cause of death: arteriosclerosis
Father's name: John E Van Eps
Birthplace of father: New York State
Mother's name: Ada M Traver
Birthplace of mother: New York State
Informant: Mrs William Clarke, 2246 La Salle Gardens, Detroit
Place of burial: Mount Clemens, Michigan
Date of burial: 16 Sep 1930

He married Hattie Mary Church 28 Oct 1880 in Macomb, Macomb, Michigan.