John Moser was born on April 27, 1826, at Mosers Island, Nova Scotia.

He was a schoolmaster, naturalist, and author. He attended Horton Academy and Acadia College in Wolfville, N. S. (B.A., 1848). He studied at Baptist ministry at Newton Theological Institute in Massachusetts (1850-1853). He was never ordained and pursued instead a career as a schoolteacher. After 1867 he resided permanently in New Brunswick, heading a succession of grammar, superior, and common schools in many small communities throughout the province. He contributed several records of flowering plants from the vicinity of Grand Falls to the Rev. James Fowler’s “List of New Brunswick Plants”, the first comprehensive catalogue of the flora of the province, published in 1879. Moser was elected a corresponding member of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick in 1883. The focus of his interests had shifted to mosses and it was in this branch of botany that he made a significant contribution. He is the author of “List of Mosses of New Brunswick” (1898).

He died on June 11, 1907, in Salem, Kings County, New Brunswick.

Herbert Frederick Moseley was born in 1906 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He received his double course BA and MA from McGill University in 1926. He was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and Radcliffe Prize. He worked at St. Thomas's Hospital in London and in 1950 he became Hunterian Professor. In 1939, he returned to Canada and joined the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University as Demonstrator in Surgery. He eventually become Director of the Accident Service, surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, and Associate Professor of Surgery at McGill. In 1961, he became Associate Professor.

He wrote the book Shoulder Lesions in 1940.