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Mrs. J. A. Park was born Feb. 23, 1863, lived and practiced in Montreal. She was associated with the Montreal Maternity Hospital. She was the second wife of John Alexander Park, a Montreal carpenter. In 1892 she was working as a 'ladies' nurse', living at 535 St. Lawrence. She remained listed as a nurse in the 1901 census. She died 1918.

Francis Parkman was born on September 16, 1823, in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was an American historian. He studied Greek, Latin, and mathematics at the Chauncy Place School in Boston. A talented linguist, he entered Harvard University in 1840. At the insistence of his father, he entered Harvard’s Faculty of Law in 1844, but, though he received a degree in 1846, he never practised. He spent time travelling in Europe and through the forests of New England, the Great Plains, and southeastern Canada, writing histories of the American wilderness and American Indians. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855, and in 1865, a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He published his classic history of "France and England in North America" (7 vols., 1865–1892). The Society for American Historians annually awards the Francis Parkman Prize for the best book on American history.

In 1850, he married Catherine Scollay Bigelow (1827–1858). He died on November 8, 1893, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.

Samuel Hickling Parkes was born on April 8, 1817, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.

He was a businessman and amateur astronomer. His father, James Parker ((1786-), began manufacturing optical and mathematical instruments and supplies in 1815. His only son Samuel became a partner in about 1823, forming J. Parkes and Son. Recognizing the burgeoning market of students and middle-class amateurs, they focused on inexpensive instruments, e. g., microscopes, slides, measuring tapes, land chains, mathematical instruments, compasses, watch keys, seals, etc. With a wide interest in science, Parkes built an observatory at his home at Kings Norton (1865-1885), housing a 5-inch refractor telescope. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1882. He published "Unfinished Worlds. A study in Astronomy" (1888).

In 1845, he married Emma Lloyd Kershaw (1818–). He died on August 12, 1896, in King's Norton, Worcestershire, England.