Edwin Goodman was born on April 22, 1833, in Grimsby, Ontario.

A graduate of the University of Toronto, he moved to St. Catharines, Ontario where he was a physician (coroner) for 30 years and chairman of the St. Catharines Board of Health. He aided in the establishment of the Royal Arch and Templar Masonry. He was a surgeon in the 19th regiment during the Fenian Raids (1866, 1870-1871). He also served as a mayor of St. Catharines (1891-1892).

In 1857, he married Caroline Elizabeth Cross (1836–1890) and in 1891, he remarried Jessie Georgina McCallum (1838–1926). He died on April 9, 1908, in St. Catharines, Lincoln County, Ontario.

Chauncey William Goodrich was born on November 17, 1864, in Cleveland, Ohio.

He was an American clergyman. He graduated from Yale College (B.A., 1886) and the Union Theological Seminary of Bowdoin College (1891). He served at parishes in New York City (1891-1894), in Orange, New Jersey (1895-1901), and at the American Church in Paris, France (1901-1910). In 1912, he returned to New York City. In 1913, he brought his family to Brunswick, Maine to begin his pastorate at the First Parish Church. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Bowdoin College in 1915. In 1917, during World War One, he was called back to the American Church in Paris, France. In 1926, he retired from active duty, and with his wife, returned to the house that they had built in Brunswick, Maine. He remained there until his death in 1956.

In 1894, he married Annie Blair Stevens (1867–1943). He died in 1956 in Portland, Maine.