Dr. Moe Hegby Fred Friedman, originally from Montreal, received his B.Sc. in 1930 and his Ph.D. in physiology in 1937 from McGill University. He was a student of Dr. Boris P. Babkin. Professor Babkin was a student and friend of Russian physiologist I. P. Pavlov, 1849-1936. Babkin published a biography of his famous professor entitled Pavlov: A Biography, University of Chicago Press, 1949. Dr. Friedman helped edit the biography by reducing the size of the manuscript. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr Friedman joined the faculty of Wayne State University Medical College in Detroit. He later became Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. After retiring from Jefferson in 1974, he became Visiting Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he taught until 1995. He was founding president of the Philadelphia branch of the McGill Alumni Society.

A native of Montréal, Norman Friedman graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1921. He worked for insurance and phonograph companies, and in later life was vice-president of Allen's (a candy manufacturer) and partner in Friedman Brothers (wholesale clothiers). His avocation was collecting, particularly first editions of Leacock and Kipling; a number of his books were donated to the McGill University Library.

Benjamin Joseph Frobisher was born in Montreal in 1782 and died in Quebec City in 1821. He was the second child of Joseph Frobisher and Charlotte Jobert. In 1804, Frobisher married Isabella Grant, daughter of James Grant and Susannah Coffin, stepdaughter to John Craigie. They had one son. In 1805, Frobisher became the director of the Quebec Assembly, a social club, and from 1806 to 1812, he was a member of the Fire Society in Quebec. He received a commission as justice of the peace for the district of Trois-Rivières in 1805 and served in the district of Trois-Rivières militia as captain in 1810, then as major (1812) and lieutenant-colonel (1815) of the Sainte-Anne battalion.

Brother of Joseph Frobisher, the fur trader, Benjamin Frobisher was born in Halifax, England. He emigrated to Canada where he was involved in the fur-trade as early as 1765, in partnership with John Welles. Later he and his brothers, Joseph and Thomas, were associated with James McGill. It appears that he looked after the Montréal end of the business of Frobisher and Co., in partnership with his brothers and never went west of Grand Portage. He died in Montréal.