Israel Cook Russell was born on December 10, 1852, in Garrattsville, New York.

He was an American geologist, geographer, educator, and author. He studied at New York University (B.A.; C. E., 1872) and the Columbia School of Mines. In 1874, he was a photographer and naturalist to the U. S. Transit of Venus Expedition to New Zealand and Kerguelen Island. When he returned, he was made Assistant Professor of Geology at the Columbia School of Mines (1875-1877). In 1878, he became an assistant geologist on the U.S. geological and geographical survey west of the 100th meridian. In 1880, he became a member of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and served as its geologist until 1892. In 1889, he went on an expedition to Alaska by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to establish a portion of Alaska's eastern boundary. Under the joint auspices of the USGS and the National Geographic Society, he explored the slopes of Mount Saint Elias and the Yakutat Bay area. In 1890, Russell made the first reported sighting of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and gave the mountain its name. In 1892, he became a Professor of Geology at the University of Michigan and served as President of the Geological Society of America. He received an honorary degree of LL.D. from New York and Wisconsin Universities. He contributed numerous articles on geological subjects to various scientific periodicals and published scientific memoirs, issued as annual reports of the Geological Survey or as separate monographs.

In 1886, he married Julia Augusta Olmsted (1857–1905). He died on May 1, 1906, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

George William Erskine Russell was born on February 3, 1853, in London, England.

He was a British biographer, memoirist, and Liberal politician. He was educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, obtaining only a pass degree due to his ill health, particularly myelitis. Russell was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Aylesbury (1880-1885) and Biggleswade (1892- 1895). He was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board (1883-1885) and as Under-Secretary of State for India (1892-1894). He also served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (1894-1895) and was an Alderman on London County Council (1889-1895). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1907 and held the honorary degree of LL.D from St. Andrews University. Russell was a regular contributor to many leading newspapers and periodicals, and his weekly articles for the Manchester Guardian were republished in two series of “Collections and Recollections” (1898). He was the author of the biography "The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone" (1891). He was one of the founders of the National Liberal Club.

He died unmarried on March 17, 1919, in London, England.

George Horne Russell was born on April 18, 1861, in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish-Canadian painter who studied at the Aberdeen School of Art and the South Kensington School of Art. In 1889, he moved to Canada settling in Montreal, Quebec. While he came to be celebrated for his portraits (Sir Alexander Lacoste, Dr. Barbour, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and Lord Strathcona), Russell’s profound love for natural beauty, and particularly the sea motivated him to paint pastoral scenes and seascapes. Painting portraits gave him the financial freedom to indulge his fondness for painting nature without concern for a future buyer. He enjoyed spending summers at his country house at St. Andrews by the Sea in New Brunswick. In 1909, the Grand Trunk Railway made him an offer to paint the Rockies and the Skeena River district of British Columbia, resulting in some large and impressive canvases of these mountains. From 1922 to 1926, he was the president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

In 1889, he married Elizabeth Morrison, in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on June 25, 1933, in St. Stephen, New Brunswick.