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Colin Morton was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario.

He is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Descant, The Fiddlehead, Arc, Grain, The Malahat Review, Ascent, The North American Review, and other publications. He was a member of the performance group First Draft, which recorded, published, and performed across Canada in the 1980s. More recently, his poetry has explored aspects of world history. His book “The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major” (2009) is a poetic documentary about the exile in Canada of Lakota chief Sitting Bull and his relationship with Major James Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police. In 1986 and 2001, he won the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry.

He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Alexander Morton was born on September 11, 1854, New Orleans, Louisiana.

He was a naturalist and museum director. He moved to Australia as a child with his father Thomas William Morton, who migrated to Queensland as general manager of the Manchester Queensland Cotton Co. Alexander was a seaman for about two years. He visited England and Europe briefly but returned to Australia to study the natural sciences. He was a curator's assistant at the Australian Museum, Sydney (1877-1882) and took part in expeditions to New Guinea (1877), the Solomon Islands (1881), and Queensland and Lord Howe Island (1882). In 1884, he became Curator of the Royal Society of Tasmania's museum and its library in Hobart (renamed the Tasmanian Museum, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens in 1885). By 1891, he had reorganized the museum, using the latest British Museum labelling methods, and evolved a highly regarded system of classification and arrangement. He was made Director of both the Tasmanian Museum and Botanical Gardens in 1904. He was also honorary secretary of the Royal Society from 1887 to 1907. He helped establish the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Launceston and acted as an honorary curator in 1891-1896. As general secretary of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (Hobart, 1892), he edited its reports and papers. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, London (1889).

In 1884, he married Caroline Eliza Mills (1856-1914). He died on May 27, 1907, in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia.

Richard Cary Morse was born on September 19, 1841, in Hudson, Columbia County, New York.

He was an editor, author, and YMCA secretary. He graduated from Andover Theological Academy in 1858 and from Yale College in 1862. He then spent two years in Auburn, New York as a private tutor, followed by two years of study at the Princeton and Union Theological Seminaries, receiving degrees from both institutions in 1867. After the ownership of the New York Observer had passed from the elder Morse brothers to Richard Cary Morse's son, Sidney Edwards Morse, Richard was offered an assistant editorship. He decided that religious journalism would serve as a fit beginning his ministerial career. In 1869, he was asked to take a new position as YMCA secretary and editor, taking charge of a quarterly magazine. This began a 47-year career which culminated in the position of the General Secretary of the International Committee of YMCA. In this capacity, Morse traveled the world to help extend YMCA influence and prepared works on the organization's history. Though ordained in 1869, Richard Morse never served as a minister. The YMCA became his calling and the central activity of his life. He published "History of the North American Young Men's Christian Associations" (1913) and his autobiography "My Life with Young Men, Fifty Years in the Young Men's Christian Association" (1918).

In 1883, he married Jane “Jennie” Elizabeth Van Cott (1851–1917). He died on December 25, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York.

Edward Sylvester Morse was born on June 18, 1838, in Portland, Maine.

He was an American zoologist, archeologist, orientalist, and author. He attended Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, where he discovered a minute land snail. This discovery would launch his career as a natural scientist when the Boston Society of Natural History proclaimed it a new species in 1859 and named it in his honour Tympanis morsei. As a gifted draughtsman, he prepared wood engravings for natural history publications. He completed his education at Harvard and served as Louis Agassiz's assistant in charge of conservation, documentation, and drawing collections of mollusks and brachiopods until 1862. In 1864, he published his first work devoted to mollusks, "Observations on the Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine". He co-founded The American Naturalist and became one of its editors. In 1868, he was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1874, he was made a lecturer at Harvard University. In 1876, he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Science and in 1885, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1871 to 1874, Morse held the chair of comparative anatomy and zoology at Bowdoin College. In 1877, he visited Japan in search of new specimens for his studies. He was offered a position as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University and stayed until 1879. While in Japan, he began his collection of Japanese pottery, considered the finest of that era in the U.S. Much of his collection was purchased in 1890 by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The remainder is now called The Morse Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. He often travelled to the Far East that inspired several books, with his illustrations, e.g., “Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings” (1885), “Latrines of the East” (1893), and “Japan Day by Day” (1917). In 1898, as the first American, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (3rd class) by the Japanese government. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1898. He became chairman of the Boston Museum in 1914 and chairman of the Peabody Museum in 1915. He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures (2nd class) by the Japanese government in 1922.

In 1863, he married Ellen "Nellie" Elizabeth Owen (1837–1911). He died on December 20, 1925, in Salem, Massachusetts.

Charles James Morse was born on July 7, 1852, in Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio.

He was an engineer and collector of Chinese and Japanese art. He studied civil engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College (1871-1877). From 1876 to 1877, he was an engineer for the Massillon Bridge Co., and in 1878, together with his brother Henry G. Morse (1850-1903), he founded Morse Bridge Co. of Youngstown, Ohio. After the company was destroyed by fire in 1888, he visited Europe with members of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 1890-1891, he was manager of the Association of Bridge Builders, with an office in Chicago, and became the consulting engineer and western representative of the Edgemoor Bridge Works of Wilmington, Delaware. He later moved to Evanston, Illinois, where was in charge of the construction and replacement of several important bridges. In 1897, he retired in order to pursue his interest in oriental art. He spent a year in Japan, visiting the great temples, museums, and private collections there. During his years of study, he collected paintings, prints, pottery, and other objects of Chinese and Japanese art, and a library of eight thousand volumes relating to art and art history, for which he built a fireproof library and vault adjoining his home. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Society of Japan.

In 1884, he married Anne Perkins Woodbridge (1861–1962). He died on December 6, 1911, in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, and is buried in Poland, Ohio.