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.

Samuel Gosnell Green was born on December 20, 1822, in Falmouth, Cornwall, England.

He was an English Baptist minister, educator, author, and bibliophile. He was educated at a private school in Camberwell. After leaving school, he worked in the printing office of John Haddon in Finsbury and then as a tutor until the age of nineteen. He attended the Baptist College, Stepney to prepare for the Baptist ministry and graduated from the University of London (B.A., 1843). He served two churches, High Wycombe (1845–1847) and Taunton (1847–1851), before taking a position at the Yorkshire Baptist College, Rawdon as a tutor in classics (1851–1863). In 1863, Green became principal at the college, serving until 1876. In 1876, he came to London to work as an editor, and in 1881, as editorial secretary, of the Religious Tract Society. He was the author of eighteen books, his most important "Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament", published in 1870 and followed by numerous revised editions. In 1900, the University of St. Andrews bestowed upon him the honorary degree of D.D.

In 1848, he married Elizabeth Leader Collier (1825–1905). He died on September 15, 1905, in Streatham, Surrey, England.