Dr. Carl Ludwig Rominger was born on December 31, 1820, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

He was a physician and geologist. He graduated from the University of Tubingen (M.D., 1842). From 1842 to 1845, he remained at Tubingen as an assistant in the chemical laboratory and devoted considerable attention to the study of geology and paleontology. From 1845 to 1848, he travelled extensively on foot over a large portion of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, and France, studying the geological structure of these countries. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1848, he immigrated to New York City. He moved to Cincinnati, attracted by the fossiliferous rocks on which the city was built, and later, he relocated to Chillicothe, Ohio. He practiced medicine for a livelihood and continued the study of natural sciences, particularly the fresh-water mollusks and invertebrate fossils. In 1860, he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he resided for the remainder of his life. In 1870, he became a paleontologist for the Geological Survey of Michigan, and in 1871, he was appointed a State Geologist. He also served as an Assistant Curator at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum. Rominger left important paleontological collections, being now the property of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the National Museum, Washington, and the Bavarian Academy of Science, Munich. The Bavarian Academy of Science bestowed on him its Silver Medal Bene Merenti in 1895. He wrote numerous official publications on the geology of Michigan. Many species of fossils and one genus, the unique coral Romingeria, are named in his honour.

In 1854, he married Friederike Emilie Mayer (1826–1914). He died on April 22, 1907, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan.

David Rome was born on August 10, 1910, in Lithuania.

He was a historian, archivist, editor, author, and lifelong advocate of improving relations between anglophone Jews and Quebec francophones. He arrived in Vancouver (via Halifax) in 1921. As a young man he studied English literature at the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington in Seattle. He later obtained degrees in Library Science and English Literature from McGill University and Université de Montréal. Before coming to Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) as the organization's first press officer in 1942, Rome was the English editor of the Vancouver Jewish Western Bulletin, the Toronto Hebrew Journal, as well as the first national director of the Labour Zionist Organization. Later he became known to most of Montreal's Jews as the director of the Jewish Public Library before returning to CJC as archivist in 1972. From his earliest days in Montreal, Rome showed a deep concern with creating a dialogue and spirit of communality between Jews and the French-Canadian population of Quebec. In 1942, he served as secretary to the Congress committee for Jewish French-Canadian relations, and in the early 1950s, he founded the Cercle Juif de la Langue Française, the first Francophone Jewish cultural group in Canada. He also served on the Council of Arts for the Government of Quebec and the Comité Judeo Catholique established by Archbishop Paul Grégoire in 1971. He was the co-author, with Father Jacques Langlais, of two books about Jewish-French Quebec relations: “Juifs et québécois français: 200 ans d'histoire commune” (1986, English version 1991) and “Les Pierres qui parlent/ The Stones that Speak” (1992). In 1987, he co-founded the Institut Québécois d'études sur la culture juive to further research and publications in this field. In recognition of his ceaseless efforts along these lines, Rome was named Knight of the Order of Quebec in 1987, and in 1991, he received the Prix d'Excellence from the Quebec Government Ministry of Cultural Communities and Immigration, the province's highest award for fostering intercultural relations. He published over 60 volumes on Canadian Jewish history and literature, the majority under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Archives new series produced by the CJC National Archives. In 1991, Montreal's Concordia University awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

He died on January 16, 1996, in Montreal, Quebec.