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David Francis Henry Wilkins was born in 1846 in Charleston, Ohio.

He was a teacher and geologist. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A.) and McGill University (Bac. App. Sc., 1875). In 1878, he became Professor of Chemistry and Geology at Albert College, Belleville, Ontario. In 1881, he was teaching in Chatham and in 1890, when he published his last papers, he was principal of Beamsville High School. Wilkins was prominent in the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art and published articles on geology in the Canadian Naturalist, Journal and Proceedings of the Hamilton Association and Quarterly Journal of Science.

In 1881, he married Minnie Talbot Robinson (-1930).

Thomas J. Wilkie was born on May 10, 1842, in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

He was one of the pioneers of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1869, he became the first General Secretary of the Toronto association. He was also involved in the development of the YMCA in Brooklyn, New York, becoming its secretary in 1880. In 1886, along with his brother John, he was hired to develop 64 acres of the prime waterfront land on Long Branch Avenue in Etobicoke. The project was named “Long Branch Park” and it housed the first boys’ summer camp. Wilkie also served as a travelling secretary and was instrumental in establishing many summer camps across Canada and the United States.

In 1874, he married Charlotte Cornell (c. 1843-), and in 1890, he married Mary McCord (1842-1909). He died on September 4, 1916, in Los Angeles, California.

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.