Theodore Spencer Case was born on January 26, 1832, in Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.

He was a physician and a Civil war Union Army officer. In 1856, he graduated from the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. In 1883, he received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and he settled in Kansas City. He worked as an editor of the Medical Review (1860-1861) and held the office of an alderman (1860). In 1861, he became 2nd lieutenant of the 25th Missouri Infantry and later captain and assistant quartermaster. In 1865, he was made colonel and quartermaster general. He also worked as curator of the University of Missouri, postmaster of Kansas City (1873-1885), and in 1885, he became professor of chemistry at Kansas City Medical College. He edited the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry (1877-1885) and in 1886, he became president of the Kansas City Real Estate and Stock Exchange.

In 1858, he married Julia McCoy Lykins (1839–1872) and in 1872, he remarried Fidelia Olivia Wright (1845–1908). He died on February 16, 1900, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Italian musician Franco Cassano, born in San Severo, tried his hand at various musical occupations: pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. During his career, he collaborated with Radio della Svizzera Italiana. He conducted the RAI orchestra in Milan and the orchestra of the Festival de San Remo. During the 1960s and 1970s he wrote many songs, including for a soundtrack for the film Vaghe Stelle d’Orsa. Probably his best-known song, written in 1968 with Corrado Conti, was “Melodia” sung originally by Isabella Iannetti, but made famous by Engelbert Humperdinck’s version, “The Way it Used to Be.” English lyrics to replace Gianni Argenio’s original Italian lyrics were provided by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. Cassano’s most influential work, however, was producing records for 27 years as director of the Italian record company, Durium.

Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Company, London, 1878-1883; Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1883-1969; Cassell and Collier Macmillan, 1969-1978.

William Cassils was born on June 25, 1832, in Denny, Scotland.

He was a telegraph operator and businessman. Educated in Renton, Scotland, he came to Canada in 1851 where he became an apprentice telegraph operator for the Montreal Telegraph Company. He advanced rapidly and soon was supervising the installation of a line following the Grand Trunk Railway. In 1853, he was promoted manager of the firm’s Quebec City office. After the absorption of Quebec's rival British North American Electric Telegraph Association in 1856, Cassils served as the superintendent of Montreal Telegraph’s Eastern division. From 1866 to 1876, he formed a partnership with George A. Cameron, opening a hoop-skirt factory and later evolving into a wholesale business for fancy dry goods in Montreal. In 1876, he left Cameron to organize the Canadian District Telegraph Company, of which he became president. About 1877 Cassils became president of the Canada Central Railway Company, which merged with the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1881. He then served as receiver of the financially floundering St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway Company and president of the Dominion Transport Company. In 1889, he became president of the Federal Telephone Company. He was also president of the Electro-Mechanical Clock Company, vice-president of the British American Ranch Company, and director of the Montreal Herald, the Windsor Hotel Company of Montreal, and several financial institutions. He was also a secretary-treasurer of the Quebec Protestant School Board and a member of the St. James Club and the Fish and Game Club.

In 1856, he married Agnes Simpson Hossack (1840-1908). He died on December 25, 1891, in Montreal, Quebec.