Jim Smith was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in 1951. He is a Canadian poet, writer, translator from Spanish, and lawyer. He was educated at Queen's University (B.A., 1977), Concordia University (M.A., 1981), and Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 1997). He moved to Toronto in the early 1980s. He was the publisher of Front Magazine from 1972 to 1980 and Front Press from 1980 to 1993. During his writing career, Smith published thirteen poetry books and chapbooks, including "One Hundred Most Frightening Things" (1985) and "Back Off, Assassin!: New and Selected Poems" (2009). He was called to the Ontario bar in 1999. In 2020, he retired from the Crown Law Office (Civil), Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario. He lives, writes, and litigates in Toronto and visits Spain as often as possible.

John Alden Smith was born on May 19, 1830, in Kennebec County, Maine.

He was a geologist, publisher, and editor. He was apprenticed at the age of 14 years to the Hallowell Gazette, where he acquired knowledge of the various details of the printing trade. He opened his printing shop and became an owner and newspaper publisher of the Bethel Courier. An interest in geology, mineralogy, and metallurgy prompted studies of the disciplines. In 1864, he relocated to Colorado and worked at first in the office of the Central City Miner's Register as a geologist, then for Noble Gold Mining Company and American Gold and Silver Mining Company. He was editor of the Miner's Register, a journal on mineral resources in Colorado. He was named Colorado Territory's first geologist in 1872. From 1874 to 1879, he served as superintendent of the American and Slide mines for the American Gold and Silver Mining Company in Boulder County. Smith was appointed Colorado State Geologist in 1879. Along with General Frank Hall, he opened an agency in Denver that examined and reported on mines.

In 1853, he married Amy Elizabeth Wiggins (1833–1895). He died on July 17, 1896, in Magnolia, Boulder County, Colorado.

Goldwin Smith was born on August 13, 1823, in Reading, England.

He was a historian, writer, and journalist. Educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1845; M.A., 1848), he was elected a Fellow of Oxford in 1847. A Fellow in Civil Law at University College London (1846), he was called to the bar in 1850 at Lincoln’s Inn, but he never pursued a legal career. As a member of the Royal Commission of 1850 to inquire into the reform of the university, he published a pamphlet, The Reorganization of the University of Oxford (1868). He was a tutor of King Edward, and in 1858, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, retaining the position until 1866. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1865. Smith first visited America during the Civil War, and in 1866, he was appointed Professor of English and Constitutional History at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. In 1871, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, but retained an honorary professorship at Cornell and returned to campus frequently to lecture. He got married in 1875 to Harriet Elizabeth Dixon (1826–1909) and spent the rest of his life in her manor named the Grange. He edited the Canadian Monthly and founded the Week and the Bystander. In 1893, Smith was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He published articles in a weekly The Farmer's Sun and wrote My Memory of Gladstone (1904).

He died on June 7, 1910, in Toronto, Ontario.