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Wilfrid Notman was the grandson of William Notman, founder of the famous Montreal photographic studio in which his father, William McFarlane Notman, was a partner. He enlisted in the Canadian Field Artillery in 1914, citing “clerk” as his occupation. Lieutenant Notman was sent overseas with the 3rd Canadian Division of the Light Trench Mortar Battery. He was killed in action during the Battle of Ypres in 1916 and awarded the Memorial Cross.

William Augustus Norton was born on October 25, 1810, in East Bloomfield, New York.

He was a civil engineer, educator, and author. In 1831, he graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he began his academic career as an assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy. He participated in the Black Hawk War in 1832. In 1833, he became a professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at the City University of New York. In 1839, he moved to Delaware College as a professor, and in 1850, he became its president. He had plans to turn the school into a scientific institution but was discouraged. He left in 1850 to become a professor of natural philosophy and civil engineering at Brown University. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1844. In 1852, Norton moved to Yale College to become its first professor of engineering. He was one of the founding faculty of the Sheffield Scientific School in 1854. In 1873, Norton became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He remained at Yale until his death in 1883. He is the author of a college astronomy textbook, “An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy” (1839) and “First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy” (1858).

In 1839, he married Elizabeth Emery Stevens (1816–1903). He died on September 21, 1883, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Niram Norton rented farmland from the Hall family in Hinchinbrooke, Quebec, between 1805 and 1810.

Charles Benjamin Norton was born on July 1, 1825, in Hartford, Connecticut.

He was an American archivist, historian, publisher, editor, and bookseller. In 1857, he founded and published Norton's Literary Letter, a series of historically informative catalogues. Before 1861, Norton was a dealer in rare books in New York City, making occasional trips to Europe, buying books from distinguished libraries, and donating or reselling them for public and private use. In 1861, he donated many books to the library at Harvard University. He was mostly known for his Literary Gazette, the country's first library periodical. In 1853, the Literary Gazette organized the first library convention, becoming the predecessor to the American Library Association. During the American Civil War, Norton served with distinction in the Union Army as a quartermaster in a New York Regiment and later as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 5th Army Corps on the staff of Gen. Fitz John Porter. In 1867, he was appointed and served as US Commissioner to the Paris Exposition Universelle.

He died on January 29, 1891, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, was born on July 15, 1865, at Sunnybank, Chapelizod, near Dublin, Ireland.

He was a British journalist and newspaper and publishing magnate. He was educated at Henley House School, Hampstead (1878), where he published the school magazine. By 1880, he was an occasional reporter on the Hampstead and Highgate Express. He also contributed articles to The Cyclist and Wheeling, The Globe, the Morning Post, and the St. James's Gazette. A bout of pneumonia brought on by cycling from Bristol in the rain and with insufficient food resulted in his doctor's ordering him in 1885 to leave London. He moved to Coventry, where he worked for Iliffe & Sons and wrote two books, "One Thousand Ways to Earn a Living" and "All about Railways." Harmsworth was an early developer of popular journalism. He bought several failing newspapers and made them into an enormously profitable newsgroup, appealing to the general public. He began with The Evening News in 1894 and then merged two Edinburgh papers to form the Edinburgh Daily Record. In 1896, he began publishing the Daily Mail in London and, in 1903, he founded the Daily Mirror, relaunched in 1904 as the Illustrated Daily Mirror. He rescued the financially failing Observer (1905), The Times (1908) and acquired The Sunday Times (1908). Northcliffe had a powerful role during the First World War, especially by criticizing the government regarding the Shell Crisis of 1915. In 1918, he became a Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries, a role that used his journalistic skills. In 1905, Harmsworth was raised to the peerage as Baron Northcliffe, and, in 1918, he was created Viscount Northcliffe, of St. Peter's in the County of Kent, for his service as the director of the British war mission in the United States. The subsidiary of the Amalgamated Press, the Educational Book Company, published "The Harmsworth Self-Educator," "The Children's Encyclopedia," and "Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia."

In 1888, he married Mary Elizabeth Milner (1868–1963), and they had no children together. He had an illegitimate son with Louisa Jane Smith (1864-1931) and another three children with Kathleen Wrohan (1873-1923). He died on August 14, 1922, in London, England.