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Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight V was born on November 16, 1828, in Norwich, Connecticut.

He was an academic, educator, Congregational minister, and president of Yale College. He received his B.A. degree (1849) and M.A. degree (1852) from Yale’s Theological Department. He worked as a tutor in the College from 1851 to 1855, and then went abroad to continue his studies at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. He returned to America in 1858 and became a professor of sacred literature at Yale College. In 1869, Chicago Theological Seminary conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him, and Yale honoured him with a similar degree in 1886. The same year he was elected president of Yale College (1886–1898). One of the first acts he proposed was the change of name to Yale University in 1887. Dwight was a member of the American committee for the revision of the English version of the Bible, and for several years he was one of the editors of the New Englander. He was the author of "Thoughts of and for the Inner Life" (1899) and "Memories of Yale Life and Men, 1845-1899" (1903).

In 1866, he married Jane Wakeman Skinner (1832–1919). He died on May 26, 1916, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Rev. William Buck Dwight was born on May 22, 1833, in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (today’s Istanbul, Turkey).

He was an educator and geologist. In 1849, he came to the United States for his education. He attended Union Theological Seminary and graduated from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1854. Throughout his life, he maintained his interest and activity in geological study. He started to teach and founded the Englewood Institute for Girls, New Jersey where he served as principal until 1865. In 1867, he was appointed principal of the Officers' Family School at West Point, N.Y. Later he entered the State Normal School at New Britain, Connecticut, as principal and professor of Natural Science. In 1878, he became a Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he spent the next twenty-six years. During several sessions, he also taught zoology at the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute. He made a persistent study of the Dutchess County limestones and collected fossils. Professor Dwight also drew up a geological map of Dutchess County for the New York Geological Survey.

In 1859, he married Eliza Howe Schneider (1837–1901). He died on August 29, 1906, in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Simon Dworkin, born October 15, 1899, Russia; educated at McGill University; Fellow of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1942; associate professor of physiology at McGill University, died March 25, 1978 in Montreal.