Herbert Foster Gunnison was born on June 28, 1858, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He was a journalist, editor, and author. He was president and publisher of the “Brooklyn Daily Eagle” and identified with Brooklyn journalism for over fifty years. He started at the “Eagle” in 1882 and stayed with them until 1929. Gunnison was one of the organizers of the Newspaper Publishers Association and for two years he was vice president of the Associated Press. He is the author of several tourist guides, e.g., "The Beauties of Long Island" (5 editions published between 1895 and 2018) and "Two Americans in a Motor Car. Touring in Europe" (1905).

In 1886, he married Alice May (1861–1917) and in 1923, he married Effie Gordon Munroe (1877–1947). He died on November 25, 1932, in New York City, New York.

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther was born on October 3, 1830, in Esslingen, Germany.

He was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist with more than 340 reptile species described. He graduated from the University of Tübingen in 1858 with a degree in medicine and the same year he published a handbook of zoology for students of medicine. In 1855, he met Prof. Richard Owen at the British Museum which led to an offer to work at the British Museum in 1857. In 1875, he was appointed Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, a position he held until 1895. The major work of his life was the eight-volume “Catalogue of Fishes” (1859–1870). He also worked on the reptiles and amphibians in the museum collection. In 1864, he founded the Record of Zoological Literature and served as its editor for six years. He was also one of the editors for the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for more than thirty years. In 1867, Günther was elected fellow of the Royal Society and was its vice-president (1875–1876). He served on the council of the Zoological Society (1868–1905). He was elected a fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1877 and served as its president (1896–1900). He became a naturalized British citizen in 1874.

In 1868, he married Roberta Mitchell McIntosh (1842–1869) and in 1879, he remarried Theodora Dowrish Drake (1863–1944). He died on February 1, 1914, in Kew Gardens, Surrey, England.

Fraser B. (Baillie) Gurd was born on January 7, 1883, in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1906, he graduated from the McGill Medical School and began a career as a surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital (MGH), a part of three generations of the Gurd family surgeons. In 1914, at the start of WWI, he enlisted but was rejected by the Canadians due to his lack of experience. Undeterred, he was accepted by the British War Office and he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915. He served in Air-sur-Lys, France, on the front-line where he gained tremendous medical experience treating sick and injured soldiers. He made a name for himself by changing the surgical dressing technique. In 1919, he returned to the MGH, later becoming a surgeon-in-chief. He also began an academic career at McGill University where he introduced the McGill Diploma Course in Surgery. He lobbied for a program of increasing surgical responsibility for the residents.
He participated in the work that developed the first T. B. Chest-X-Ray Clinic in Montreal.

In 1910, he married Jessie Gibson Newman. He died in February 1948 in Montreal, Quebec.