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Edwin Anderson Alderman was born on May 15, 1861, in Wilmington, North Carolina.

He was an educator and the first president of the University of Virginia. He studied at Bethel Military Academy, Virginia (1876-1878) and the University of North Carolina (B.Phil., 1882). He became a schoolteacher in Goldsboro, North Carolina, superintendent of city schools there (1885-1889) and conductor of the state teachers' institutes (1889-1892). In 1891, Alderman and Charles Duncan McIver successfully pressed the North Carolina Legislature to establish the Normal and Industrial School for Women, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was elected a member of the American Historical Association in 1892, a member of the Maryland Historical Society in 1893, and a member of the National Education Association in 1894. In 1892, Alderman became a professor of history at State Normal College. In 1893, he became a professor of pedagogy at the University of North Carolina and was named its president in 1896. Then he moved on to take the same position at Tulane University in 1900, and in 1904, he became the first president of the University of Virginia, the position he held until he died in 1931. Alderman received the honorary D.C.L. from the University of the South in 1896, LL.D. from Tulane University in 1898, and Johns Hopkins University in 1902. He was a noted public speaker and won fame for his memorial address for Woodrow Wilson, delivered to a joint session of Congress on December 15, 1924.

In 1886, he married Emma Selina Graves (1858–1896), and in 1904, he remarried Bessie Green Hearn (1881–1959). He died on April 30, 1931, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.

Charles Paul Alexander was born on September 25, 1889, in Gloversville, New York.

He was an American entomologist and authority on the crane fly (Tipulidae). He earned his B.Sc. (1913) and Ph.D. (1918) from Cornell University. He worked as a Curator of the Snow Entomological Collection at the University of Kansas (1917-1919) and a Curator with the Illinois Natural History Survey (1919-1922). In 1922, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Agricultural College faculty at Amherst (now the University of Massachusetts), where he remained for the rest of his career. He classified nearly 13,000 species of crane fly. The Smithsonian Institute holds his personal collection of crane flies. Upon his retirement in 1959, the University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America. Alexander was a member of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) from 1910 until his death, serving as its President from 1941 to 1943. In 1976, he received the L. O. Howard Award for Distinguished Achievement in Entomology of the Eastern Branch of ESA. Alexander was also a Corresponding Member of the American Entomological Society, an Honorary Member of the National Pest Control Association, an Honorary Fellow of the Sociedad Chilean de Entomologia, an Honorary Member of the Kebun Raya Indonesia (Botanical Gardens of Indonesia), and a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. In 1952, he was the recipient of the Bernardo O'Higgins Order of Merit of the government of Chile.

In 1917, he married Mable Marguerite Miller (1894–1979). He died on December 3, 1981, in Hampshire, Massachusetts.

Charles Alexander was born on June 13, 1816, in Dundee, Scotland.

He was a confectioner, caterer, philanthropist, and politician. He was educated at the Dundee Parochial Grammar School and then was apprenticed to the firm of Keiller and Sons, marmalade manufacturers.

In 1840, he immigrated to Lower Canada and found employment with the Montreal branch of the Keiller firm. Later he set up his own confectionery shop and he built up a successful manufacturing firm and wholesale-retail business. He opened Montreal’s first temperance dining-room in 1842, to which he later added an ice-cream parlour, and he pioneered catering services in the city. He was important as a reformer and philanthropist and he gave his time and skills in management to many charitable institutions and reform causes. In 1865, he was elected to represent the West Ward. As councillor from 1865 to 1867 and as alderman from 1868 to 1875, he sought to improve the welfare of Montreal’s citizens. He was a member of the Citizens’ League of Montreal and the Montreal Sanitary Association. In 1870, he and several friends tackled the problem of homeless adolescent boys by establishing the Boys’ Home of Montreal. From 1882 to 1905, he was president of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and from 1901 to 1905, president of the Montreal Sailors’ Institute. A respected businessman, Alexander was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade. He served on the board of directors of the Sun Mutual Life Insurance Company of Montreal (1871–1905), the Montreal Permanent Building Society (1865–70), and its successor the Montreal Loan and Mortgage Company, and the Mount Royal Cemetery Company (1895–1905).

He died on November 5, 1905, in Montreal, Quebec.