Frederick (or Frederic) Newton Gisborne was born on March 8, 1824, in Broughton, Lancashire, England.
He was a British inventor, electrical engineer, and civil servant. He was educated by clergymen and special instructors in England. He concentrated on mathematics, electricity, civil engineering, botany, and other scientific subjects. In 1842, he left England for a trip around the world and settled in Canada in 1845. He enrolled in a course in telegraphy offered in Montreal by one of Morse’s pupils and was offered a post with the Montreal Telegraph Company in Quebec City. As an expert electrical engineer, he was appointed superintendent of the lines of the Nova Scotia government at Halifax in 1847. After studying the problems of ocean telegraphy, he laid the first deep-sea cable in North American waters, between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick in 1852. In 1854, he was appointed the chief engineer of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, laying the Cape Ray–Cape Breton cable in July 1856 and completing the Newfoundland–Nova Scotia line by October. In 1879, Gisborne was appointed superintendent of the Canadian government telegraph service, the position he held until his death in 1892.
In 1850, he married Alida Ellen Starr (1834–1854) and in 1857, he remarried Henrietta Hernaman (1837–1928). He died on August 30, 1892, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Charles Cesarie Glackmeyer was born on June 22, 1820, in Montreal, Quebec.
He served as Montreal's City Clerk from 1859 to 1891. He wrote and contributed to many laws and charters publications, e.g., “The By-Laws of the City of Montreal: With an Appendix” (1865) and "Appendix to the Charter and By-Laws of the City of Montreal: Containing Amendments to the Charter and By-Laws Passed Since the Last Publication of the Municipal Laws in 1865" (1870).
In 1848, he married Marie Reine Josephine Duvernay (–1899). He died on April 9, 1892, in Montreal, Quebec.
Rev. Solomon Washington Gladden was born on February 11, 1836, in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania.
He was an American Congregational pastor, a leader in the Social Gospel movement, and an author. At 16, he worked as an apprentice at the Owego Gazette. In 1854, he became part of the temperance movement and decided to become a minister. He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts in 1859. He was ordained in 1860 and started his first position at the State Street Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York, followed by a call to the Congregational Church at Morrisania, New York (1861-1866), and a pastorate in North Adams, Massachusetts (1866-1871). In 1871, he became the religious editor of the New York Independent, a position that has earned him national recognition. In 1875, Gladden became pastor of the North Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, and in 1882, he moved on to the First Congregational Church in Columbus, Ohio where he served for 36 years. He furthered his national reputation as a religious leader and as a community leader by his preaching, lecturing, writing, and active involvement. He was one of the first leading U.S. religious figures to support the unionization of the workforce; he also opposed racial segregation. In 1885, he took part in forming the American Economic Association and served on its Council. He was a prolific writer, with 66 books and pamphlets to his credit, as well as a number of hymnals. By life’s end, he had received 35 honorary doctorates and lectured, among other places, at Notre Dame, Yale, Oxford, and Harvard.
In 1860, he married Jennie O. Cohoon (1840–1909). He died on July 2, 1918, in Columbus, Ohio.
Amateur artist Elizabeth Gladstone was born in London. She was the daughter of British chemist John Hall Gladstone, Fullerian Professor at the Royal Institution who was best known for the application of optical phenomena to chemical problems; he also ordered the elements known at the time by atomic weight. She lived in Kensington until her marriage in 1896 to Henri Bach after which she moved to France and was known as Madame Bach Gladstone. Her watercolours, many of which are of Kensington, are signed. E.A.G. She donated 67 paintings to the Kensington Library in 1933. Her older sister Florence was also a water colourist and local historian. Her much younger half-sister Margaret, born in 1870 from her widowed father’s second wife, married Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
