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Dr. George Hammell Cook was born on January 5, 1818, in Hanover, New Jersey.

He was the State Geologist and Vice President of Rutgers College. In 1836, he became a civil engineer. In 1839, he graduated from the Troy Polytechnic Institute, New York. Afterwards, he started to teach at the institute and in 1842, he became its president. Later he became president of the Albany Academy, and in 1853, he was made professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at Rutgers College, New Jersey. In 1854, he was appointed State Geologist of New Jersey and many topographical maps of the state were published under his supervision. In 1864, he became Vice-President of Rutgers College. He organized the State Board of Agriculture and in 1866, he became the Chief Director of the New Jersey State Weather Service. He was also a delegate to the International Geological Congress in Paris in 1878. Dr. Cook was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the author of many papers and addresses. He received the degree of LL.D. from Union College and was made Doctor of Philosophy by the New York University.

In 1846, he married Mary Halsey Thomas (1821–1898). He died on September 22, 1889, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

John Mason Cook was born on January 13, 1834, in Market Harborough, Leicester, England.

He was the son of Thomas Cook (1808-1892), the founder of the Thomas Cook Travel Agency. In 1865, he was appointed head of a new office on Fleet Street, London. An energetic man, he made an immediate impact, and the subsequent growth of the business was due much to the son as the father. In 1871, he entered into full partnership with his father and the firm became known as Thomas Cook & Son, with invested capital of over £250,000. He travelled on business an average of 50,000 miles a year between 1855 and 1873. The travel agency offered railway excursions around Britain, tours of Europe and in 1866, it took tourists to America to see scenes of the recent Civil war. By the end of the decade, it was taking people to Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1878, Cook expanded the business into a lucrative foreign banking and money exchange department and helped develop travellers' cheques. He was also a Temperance President. At the time of his death, the gross value of his estate was assessed at £390,000. Cook was succeeded in business by his three sons: Frank Henry, Ernest Edward, and Thomas Albert.

In 1861, he married Emma Hodges (1834-1902). He died on March 4, 1899, in Walton on Thames, Chertsey, Surrey, England.

John Cook was born on April 13, 1805, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

He was a clergyman, educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. In 1835, he was ordained a priest of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and in 1836, he came to Canada where he obtained a position at St. Andrew's Church in Quebec City. As its minister for many years, he played a prominent part in bringing about the union of Presbyterians in Canada in 1875. He participated in the Quebec Charitable Firewood Society, a Protestant anglophone body that bought firewood in summer at low prices for winter distribution to the destitute. In 1845, he helped organize a major relief effort for the victims of the fires in the suburbs of Saint-Roch and Saint-Jean. In 1848, he published "The Advantages of Life Assurance to the Working Classes". In 1860, he was appointed a commissioner responsible for foundlings and indigent sick in the district of Quebec. He was a member of the Quebec Library Association, the St Andrew’s Society, and the Quebec Bible Society. Cook was deeply committed to promoting education. He was one of the founders of Queen's University, Kingston, and was its principal in 1857-1858. In 1861, he was appointed principal of Morrin College, Quebec and he retained this position until his death. Cook was also a member of the Board of Governors of McGill College. In 1880, the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Queen's University, Kingston.

About 1837 he married Eliza Airth (1805-1881). He died on March 31, 1892, in Quebec City, Quebec.

Caleb Cooke was a prominent American naturalist and museum curator based in Salem, Massachusetts, who dedicated his career to the Essex Institute and the Peabody Academy of Science.