James Robert Rhind was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1853 and trained in the office of his brother John Rhind (1836-1889) in that city. He later went to London and was principal assistant to Isaacs & Florence, then worked as assistant superintendent for Boulnois & Warner. He opened an office in London in 1880, but moved to Canada in 1888 and settled in Montreal where he was 'local architect in charge' of the Royal Victoria Hospital (1890-93), an institutional landmark designed by H. Saxon Snell. After completion of this project in 1893 Rhind remained in Montreal until May 1895, then returned to Scotland where he succeeded in obtaining several commissions for Carnegie library buildings in Glasgow in 1903-06. Rhind died in Inverness on 10 January 1918.

William Jones Rhees was born on March 13, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was a famous clerk and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writer, and editor. He graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1847 and took a position as clerk and draughtsman for the Holland Land Company in Meadville, Penn. In 1850, he moved to Washington, D.C., and was appointed a clerk in the Census Office in the Department of the Interior. In 1855, he became a chief clerk at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1870, he left briefly to pursue the stationary business in Springfield but returned as chief clerk and secretary. He became the first keeper of the Archives in 1891. Rhees was a prolific writer and editor of Smithsonian history. He wrote An Account of the Smithsonian Institution in 1857, which briefly described the history and organization of the Institution and served as a guide to the National Museum. He also produced several further editions of the Account and Visitor's Guide to the Smithsonian Institution (1880-87, 1889, and 1891-92). He compiled and edited The Smithsonian Institution: Documents Relative to Its Origin and History (1879). He helped found and served as president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington and was active in its philanthropic work during the Civil War. He was a member and officer of the District chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and he compiled the Register of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1896) and its Yearbook (1897). He was also a member of the Anthropological Society, the District of Columbia Historical Society, the National Geographic Society, and the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Rhees served as a correspondent on special topics for many national and local newspapers.

In 1856, he married Laura Oliver Clarke (1835–1864), and in 1866, he married Romenia Fontinette Ellis (1846–1923). He died on March 18, 1907, in Washington, D.C.

Thomas W. Reynolds was born 1858 in Brockville, Ontario. He was the second son of a Dr. Thomas Reynolds, also of Brockville. Thomas W. Reynolds was a medical student at McGill University from 1877-1881. He died in Brockville in 1902 at the age of 44 of pulmonary tuberculosis. Dr. Osler was the presiding physician.

Dr. Robert Todd Reynolds was born February 21, 1812. His mother, Thérèse Bouchette des Rivières, was the widow of the stepson of James McGill. Reynolds graduated from McGill in Medicine and Surgery in 1836. He died February 25, 1897, at which point he was McGill's oldest living medical graduate.