Charles Sprengel Greaves was born on July 18, 1801, in Ingleby, Yorkshire, England.

He was a barrister and author. He graduated from Queen's College, Oxford (B.A., 1823; M.A., 1825) and was called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1827. In 1850, he became Queen's counsel. He was the draftsman of the Criminal Procedure Act 1851 and the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. He became a Secretary to the Criminal Law Commission in 1878. He was also an antiquarian, a member of the Archaeological Institute, and the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

In 1841, he married Emma Frances Tyson (1819–1880). He died on June 3, 1881, in London, England.

Clair James Grece was born on August 20, 1831, in Horley, Surrey, England.

He was a solicitor (LL.B.) and philologist. He worked as a solicitor of the London University and as town clerk of Reigate, Surrey. He was a Fellow of the Philological Society in London (1862-1905). Grece wrote works on various legal topics, e.g., the paper "Upon Negative Voting", presented at a Meeting of the Jurisprudence of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in 1869. He translated a 3-volume German study of English grammar, "An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical" by Prof. Mätzner (1874).

In 1884, he married Mary Gasson (1854–1897) and in 1901, he remarried Jeanette Maud Dundas (1872- ). He died on December 8, 1905, in Horley, Surrey, England.

Adolphus Washington Greeley (or Greely) was born on March 27, 1844, in Newburyport, Massachusetts and died on October 20, 1935, in Washington, DC. His parents were John Balch Greeley and Frances Dunn Cobb Greely. In 1878, Greeley married Henrietta Nesmith, and they had seven children. In 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army for the American Civil War and received his commission as a second lieutenant in 1863 and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1864 and then captain in 1865. In 1881, Greeley commanded the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, a 25-man expedition organized to carry out Arctic explorations. On this expedition, they reached the furthest point north then attained by settlers but ran out of food. He was one of the six men who survived, and they were rescued in 1884. Greeley continued to serve in the army until his retirement in 1908. For his services in organizing relief operations in San Francisco following the earthquake in 1904, he was raised to the rank of major-general. Greeley was awarded the Medal of Honor in March 1935. He wrote several books and magazine articles on Arctic exploration and his experiences.

Caleb Green was a postmaster who operated post offices in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Laprairie, Quebec in the late 1780s.