Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick was born at Centerville, Iowa, on 2 April 1868. He attended the State University of Iowa, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1893 and a Master of Science in 1895. He served as Professor of Mathematics and Botany at Graceland College from 1895 to 1899 and again from 1908 to 1912. He also worked as a field collector for the Iowa State Historical Society from 1903 to 1907.

Fitzpatrick came to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1913 to serve as Professor of Science at Cotner College. He became Assistant Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Nebraska in 1918, a position he held until his retirement in 1949. During his career at the University of Nebraska he also served as librarian for the Botany and Mathematics Departments. Fitzpatrick died in Lincoln on 28 March 1952.

Dr. James Cyril (Flin) Flanagan was born on September 27, 1897, in Thorne, Quebec.

Left for dead on the battlefield in a blood bath at Passchendale in World War I, he miraculously recovered and went on to study dentistry at McGill. He became known as "Flin" Flanagan and starred at McGill for four brilliant years (1919-23) in both football and hockey despite having shrapnel in his legs and torso. He captained the hockey team in 1922-23 and scored 50 percent of the team's goals that season (11 of 22) in only six games. An ardent believer in the sanctity of amateur status, he declined a $4,000 contract to play for the Montreal Canadiens in 1922. After graduating in 1923, Flanagan opened two dental clinics in Montreal, including the first free dental clinic for the poor in the east end. His other clinic catered to rich Westmount clientele, which he charged double the going rate. Flanagan, who was quoted in the 1923 Old McGill yearbook as saying, "My hobby is everything except physics", practiced dentistry until the age of 88. He was a founding member of the NDP (New Democratic Party) formerly CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation). In 1997, he was inducted into McGill Hall of Fame for Football and Ice Hockey.

In 1926, he married Elizabeth Randall Baile (d. 1952). In 1957, he married Lorna Rosalind Haines. He died on March 12, 1994, in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

Charles James Fleet was born in 1852 in Montreal and died in 1927 in Montreal. On May 17, 1884, he married Augusta Eleanor Redpath, the daughter of John Redpath and Jane Drummond. They had four children. Fleet obtained his B.A. from McGill in 1873, and his B.C.L. in 1879. He practiced as a lawyer in Montreal and served as president of the Graduates' Society and as a governor of McGill from 1893 until his death in 1927.

Sir Sandford Arnot Fleming was born on January 7, 1827, in Kirkcaldy, Fife County, Scotland.

He was a Canadian civil engineer, scientist, and surveyor. He studied surveying in his hometown before immigrating to Canada in 1845. He began accumulating railway experience during the 1850s and 1860s when he served as Chief Engineer of various railways in Upper Canada and Nova Scotia. He also designed Canada's first postage stamp, the three-penny beaver, issued in 1851. In 1867, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Inter-Colonial Railway, which was to link Nova Scotia to central Canada as part of the Confederation Pact. In 1871, he was made Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in charge of supervising the construction of the railway that would extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Fleming led a gruelling cross-country survey expedition to pick a route for the railway. This surveying mission across Canada gave him the idea for a standard system of time zones. He proposed the system we use today, which was adopted in 1884, and he is known for this as the "Father of Standard Time." In 1880, he took the position of Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and held it for 35 years. He played a pivotal role in increasing the importance of science at Queen's. He was vice president of the Ottawa Horticultural Society and in 1888, he became the first president of the Rideau Curling Club. In 1897, he was knighted by Queen Victoria. Fleming was designated a National Historic Person in 1950, on the advice of the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board.

In 1855, he married Ann Jane "Jeannie" Hall (1831–1888). He died on July 22, 1915, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.