Rev. Dr. Horace Carter Hovey was born on January 28, 1833, in Rob Roy, Fountain County, Indiana.

He was a clergyman, cave explorer, geologist, and author. He was a pastor of the Park Street Church, Bridgeport, Conn., and was a member of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He is considered the father of American speleology. He published many books on cave exploring, e.g., "Celebrated American Caverns, Especially Mammoth, Wyandot, and Luray" (1882) and "Guide Book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky Historical, Scientific and Descriptive" (1885).

In 1857, he married Helen Lavinia Blatchley (1830-1915). He died on July 27, 1914, in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

Albert Walton Bannister was born in September 1851 in Oakland, Ontario.

He was an educator. He graduated from Victoria University, Ontario (B.A., 1878; M.A., 1886). He served as Principal of St. Francis College in Richmond, Quebec. In 1892, he moved to California, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

In 1880, he married Jessie Victoria Young (1858–1936). He died on April 30, 1918, in La Verne, Los Angeles County, California.

Bessie Radford was born in England in 1861. She came with her family to Quebec in 1872. The 1881 Canada Census lists her occupation as a seamstress.

Rev. Wesley Pratt Wright was born on April 14, 1828, in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York.

He was a clergyman, educator, and amateur geologist. He studied at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois, and taught there from 1854 to 1856. He was also a preacher in charge of the Evanston Methodist Church. He later moved to Ontario and served as a Professor of Natural Sciences and Classics at Wesleyan Female College, Hamilton, Ontario. In the 1880s, he moved to California. He was a corresponding council member of the Hamilton Association for the Cultivation of Literature, Science and Art.

In 1856, he married Minerva Scott (1828–1863), and in 1868, he married Mary Ann Coady (1837–1907). He died on July 3, 1893, in Los Angeles, California.

Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau was born on November 9, 1840, in Sainte-Thérèse de Blainville, Quebec.

He was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician. He studied at Collège Masson in Terrebonne and Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. He was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1861 and was created Queen’s Counsel in 1873. He served as president of the Institut Canadien and editor of the tri-weekly Le Colonisateur. In 1878, he received an honorary degree of D.C.L. from Laval University, Montreal. He practiced law in Montreal and became a Professor of Criminal Law (1878-1885) and International Law (1885-1898) at Laval University. In 1867, he was elected a Conservative representative to the Legislative Assembly for the district of Terrebonne. He served as the 5th Premier of Quebec (1879-1882), federal Cabinet minister (1882-1892), and the 7th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (1892–1898). In 1881, he received the Roman decoration of St. Gregory the Great, in 1882, that of the Legion of Honour of France, and in 1896, he was nominated K.C.M.G.

In 1874, he married Mary Louise King (1855-). He died on June 13, 1898, in Montreal, Quebec.

Percy Maxwell Foshay was born on August 19, 1867, in North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts.

He was a physician, insurance agent, and amateur geologist. He graduated from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penn. (B.S., 1888; M.S., 1889) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1891). For several years, he had a private practice in Rochester, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio. He served as Secretary of the Cleveland Medical Society and editor of the Cleveland Journal of Medicine. He began his association with life insurance companies in Cleveland and became a medical referee with Mutual Life Insurance. Foshay was transferred to Chicago in 1902 and to New York in 1906, where he worked as a medical examiner and inspector of risks. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

In 1891, he married Laura Craig Long (1869–1904), and in 1904, he remarried Emily Jane Morgan (1872–1947). He died on January 26, 1939, in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey.

F.J. Griffin was a soldier in the British Army. He served as a Captain and was stationed in Quebec City in 1845.

T.F. Garneau was a resident of Quebec City who worked in the Quebec City Clerk Office in 1845.

François-Xavier Garneau was a historian, notary and poet born in Quebec City, Lower Canada, on 15 June 1809. Garneau left school at the age of 14, and did not have access to the wealth required to continue his education in a Seminary school. He worked first as a clerk, and then for a notary, becoming a notary himself in 1830. On 25 August 1835, Garneau married Marie-Esther Bilodeau. They had ten children together. Garneau wrote both poetry and history, though he is best known for his three volume "Histoire du Canada" published between 1845 and 1848. He was also active in local politics, becoming translator to the legislative assembly of Quebec in 1843 and the city clerk of Quebec in 1844. He held the position of clerk until his death in February 1866.