Francis John Shepherd was born in Como, Quebec, and took his medical degree from McGill University in 1873. After further studies in Britain and in Europe, he returned to McGill in 1875 as Demonstrator in Anatomy. In 1879, he joined the staff of the Montreal General Hospital. Shepherd also served as Professor of Dermatology from 1908 to 1913, and as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1908 to 1914. He retired as Emeritus Dean and Professor in 1919. He studied with William Osler who became a lifelong friend. He had three children: a son Ernest who died during WW1 and two daughters, Dorothy and Cecil. Cecil married the architect Percy E. Nobbs.

Elijah E. Shelton, Esq., was a Montreal lawyer and merchant, active in the 19th century (The Montreal Merchants Exchange, Merchants' Bank of Canada). In 1857, he was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Council of the Natural History Society of Montreal (1873) and its treasurer (1881).

Rev. George H. Sheldrake was born in 1844 in Little Hallingbury, Essex, England.

He was a clergyman and author. He served at the Goshen Presbyterian Church in Winchester, Tennessee, Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Mayfield, Kentucky, Presbytery of Winnebago, Chicago, Illinois, and Presbytery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He wrote the book "Medium Theory of Atonement, and Review of Dr. Burney's Soteriology" (1888).

John Sharp Shearer was born on March 11, 1834, in Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a businessman. He was educated in Scotland, and as a young man, he moved to Canada. He spent forty years as a commission and general wholesale merchant in Montreal. He owned a wholesale dry goods business with John Mackedie, called Shearer, Mackedie & Co. He was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and a governor of the General Hospital. He occupied the offices of treasurer of the Microscopical Society and the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society. He was first vice-president of the Natural History Society, a Chevalier des Alps, Maritimes of Nice, France, and president of the Montreal Dispensary and the Canadian National League. He was the chairman of the finance committee of the Maisonneuve Monument.

In 1874, he married Caroline Henrietta Pelton (1846–1922). He died on May 15, 1901, in Montreal, Quebec.

Caroline Henrietta Pelton was born in 1846 in Quebec, Canada. In 1874, she married John Sharp Shearer (1834-1901), a Montreal merchant, member of the Board of Trade, and the Governor of the Montreal General Hospital. She died in 1922, in Montreal.