Born in Melbourne, Australian Arthur Mabey Chanter’s musical career included composing, conducting and teaching. Before university, he studied piano and composition with Louie Pabst. In 1894, he was the second graduate in music (and the first local graduate) from the University of Melbourne, where George Marshall-Hall was one of his teachers. Beside his composing, which included a national anthem for Australia and may other songs, he was organist and choir director at various churches. He also wrote articles, among them “The Singing Master: The Art of Voice Culture.” He was a critic of music education for children, especially singing. He served as adjudicator of an Eisteddod (Welsh-style musical competition) for native-born Australians in Western Australia in 1910, and in 1925 he judged a musical and literary competition in Adelaide. In 1927 he was appointed examiner in Tasmania for London’s Victoria College of Music, an assignment for which he spent a week in Tasmania to conduct exams. Two of the operas he composed and wrote the librettos were: “A Daughter of Italy,” performed in Victoria in 1911 and “The Vintner of Wurgburg,” a comic opera he wrote in 1910 that was performed in 1912. He lived in Brighton, Victoria, where he painted watercolors of the area, many of which were included in an exhibition in 1929.

Henry Barton Chapin was born on September 14, 1827, in Rochester, New York.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman and educator. He graduated from Yale University, Connecticut in 1847. He also studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York City and Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey and was ordained by the Presbytery of New York in 1854. He had pastorates in Steubenville, Ohio and Trenton, New Jersey. In 1866, he was associate principal of Edgehill School, Princeton, New Jersey. In 1867, he became the proprietor and principal of the Collegiate School in New York City. The school was later renamed the Chapin Collegiate School and Dr. Chapin continued his work there until his retirement in 1903. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton in 1868 and in 1891, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him also by Princeton.

In 1854, he married Harriet Ann Smith (1834–1914). He died on July 7, 1914, in White Plains, New York.

Susan Torrey Revere Chapin was born on July 11, 1865, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of John Revere and Susan Tilden Revere. She was the sister of Lady Grace Linzee Osler (1854-1928). In 1887, she married Henry Bainbridge Chapin (1857–1910). Together with her husband, they were involved in the founding of the Faulkner Hospital in Boston. She was a dedicated Board member and supporter of the hospital. She died in 1893.

Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau was born on November 9, 1840, in Sainte-Thérèse de Blainville, Quebec.

He was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician. He studied at Collège Masson in Terrebonne and Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. He was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1861 and was created Queen’s Counsel in 1873. He served as president of the Institut Canadien and editor of the tri-weekly Le Colonisateur. In 1878, he received an honorary degree of D.C.L. from Laval University, Montreal. He practiced law in Montreal and became a Professor of Criminal Law (1878-1885) and International Law (1885-1898) at Laval University. In 1867, he was elected a Conservative representative to the Legislative Assembly for the district of Terrebonne. He served as the 5th Premier of Quebec (1879-1882), federal Cabinet minister (1882-1892), and the 7th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (1892–1898). In 1881, he received the Roman decoration of St. Gregory the Great, in 1882, that of the Legion of Honour of France, and in 1896, he was nominated K.C.M.G.

In 1874, he married Mary Louise King (1855-). He died on June 13, 1898, in Montreal, Quebec.