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George Dock was born in Hopewell, Pennsylvania, in 1860. He received his B.A. Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1881 and his M.D. in 1884. From 1885 to 1887, he studied in Germany with many notable physicians. Upon his return to Philadelphia, he worked with John Herr Musser and William Osler in a pathology lab at the University of Philadelphia. In 1891, he was appointed a professor of medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he taught for thirty years. He also was an instructor at the Tulane School of Medicine from 1908-1910 before then accepting a position at Washington University in St. Louis. He retired from teaching in 1922.

Robert Fulton Dodd was an investment banker.

Rev. David Stuart Dodge was born on September 22, 1836, In New York, New York.

He was educated at the Phillips Academy at Andover before attending Yale and later the Union Theological Seminary from where he graduated in 1860. He was ordained in 1864 and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by Yale in 1899. He befriended Rev. Dr. Daniel Bliss, a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and in 1866, they founded the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon) with Dodge as the first professor of English and modern languages. He also served as president of the board of trustees of the College, a position he held until his death in 1921. He was president of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, president of the National Temperance Society, and president of the Chester Crest Home for Intemperate Men. Dodge also compiled and edited the biography of his father William Earl Dodge (1805-1883), a businessman and politician, called “Memorials of William E. Dodge” (1887).

In 1860, he married Ellen Ada Phelps (1838–1880) and in 1885, he remarried Elizabeth Scott Boyd (1846-1888). He died on December 17, 1921, in New York, New York.

Edward Dodson was a British naturalist, taxidermist, traveller, and collector who participated in the Royal Society expedition to Arabia in 1899. On assignment from the British Museum, he explored the wildlife in large parts of Africa and Patagonia.