Lanceford Bramblet Wilkes was born on March 27, 1824, in Maury County, Tennessee.

He was a preacher, educator, debater, writer, and leader in the American restoration movement. His family moved to Missouri when he was five. In 1849, he entered Bethany College, West Virginia, but soon returned to Missouri to attend State University. He participated in a series of discussions about the restoration movement. Wilkes taught and was appointed president of Christian College in Missouri in 1856. He preached in Hannibal, Missouri and Springfield, Illinois. In the 1880s, due to family health issues, Wilkes moved to California. He published the book "Moral Evil: Its Nature and Origin" (1892).

In 1854, he married Rebecca K. Bryan (1836–1888). He died on May 1, 1901, in Stockton, California.

Rev. Henry Wilkes was born on June 21, 1805, in Birmingham, England.

He was a businessman, educator, and Congregational minister. At fourteen, having already received sound business training at his father’s manufacturing business, he began to sell their products. The family immigrated to Canada in 1820, settling in Toronto and later in Brantford, Ontario. In 1822, he moved to Montreal, where he obtained employment as a clerk in the towing company of John Torrance and soon became his partner. In 1828, he moved to Glasgow, Scotland, to study theology at the Congregationalists’ Theological Academy and Glasgow University. Ordained in 1832, he began his ministry in Edinburgh in 1833. In 1836, the Colonial Missionary Society sent him to Canada. He became pastor at the First Congregational Church on Rue Saint-Maurice, Montreal. In 1842, he co-founded the Congregational Theological Institute to train pastors. Wilkes also served as president of the board of examiners for Protestant schools for twelve years. In 1869, he resigned as pastor to become principal of the Congregational Theological Institute.

In 1832, he married Lucy (Louisa) Hedge (1800–1838), in 1839, he remarried Susan Scott Holmes (1802–1850), and about 1852, Barbara McKeand (1826–). He died on November 17, 1886, in Montreal, Quebec.

Alfred Ernest Wileman was born on February 27, 1860, in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England.

He was a British diplomat and entomologist. He was appointed a Student Interpreter in Japan in 1882. In 1889, he was promoted a First Class Assistant at the Hiogo and Osaka Consular District. In 1891-1892, Wileman became Assistant Japanese Secretary and Acting Vice-Consul in Tokyo. He then served as the Acting Registrar to the Supreme Court for Japan in Yokohama (1896-1897). He was officially promoted to be the Vice-Consul at Hiogo and Osaka on December 28, 1896, and was several times Acting Consul there during 1898, residing at Kobe. Wileman was appointed as the British Vice Consul for the Japanese city of Hakodate and surrounding prefectures in April 1901 and moved to be consul to Taiwan in 1903 and to the then Territory of Hawaii in 1908. In 1909, he was appointed Consul-General to the Philippines (then a US territory). Wileman was an accomplished amateur lepidopterist, owning one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Japanese, Formosan and Philippine butterflies and moths ever assembled by a single individual. After his death, his widow Mabel Sarah Wileman donated his collection of butterflies and moths to the Natural History Department of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum in London.

In 1918, he married Mabel Sarah Gaskell Grundy (1869–1952). He died on February 15, 1929, while vacationing in Merton, France.