Violet Mary Cranston Haswell was born on January 17, 1879, in Montreal, Quebec. In 1937, she married Dr. William Marley-Cass. She died on April 1, 1961, in Vaudreuil, Quebec.

Edwin Hatch was born on September 4, 1835, in Derby, England.

He was an English theologian. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A., 1857). In 1859, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and travelled to Toronto, Canada, where he was a professor of classics at Trinity College until 1862. He served as rector of the High School of Quebec and professor of Classics at Morrin College, both in Quebec City. In 1867, he returned to England and became Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Rector of Purleigh (1883-1885). In 1873, Hatch edited “The Student's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Oxford”. He was also a Bampton lecturer (1880) and a Grinfield lecturer in ecclesiastical history (1880-1884). He is remembered as the composer of the hymn "Breathe on Me, Breath of God" (1878). Hatch's hymns were published in his posthumous book “Towards Fields of Light” (1890).

In 1863, he married Bessie Thomas (1840–1891). He died on November 10, 1889, in Headington, Oxfordshire, England.

William Hatcher was born in Newfoundland and educated at McGill, where he earned his B.A. in 1916, his M.Sc. in 1917 and a Ph.D. in 1921. He joined the staff of the Department of Chemistry in 1920 and became Assistant Professor in 1921, Associate Professor in 1929 and Professor in 1936. He retired in 1958 as Emeritus Professor. From 1944 to 1946, Hatcher served as McGill's first Assistant Dean of Arts and Science, and in 1949 he became course director and Vice-Principal of Dawson College, the campus created for World War II veterans. He twice served as chairman of the Physical Sciences Group (1940-1942, 1950-1957), and represented McGill on the Montréal City Council for many years. He was fundamentally an organic chemist and his main research interests lay with lignin, cellulose and related compounds.

Hathway & Pond were proprietors and managers of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau (formally the Boston Lyceum Bureau, founded in 1868 by the journalist James Redpath, 1833-1891) in Boston, Massachusetts. Major James Burton Pond (1838-1903) was an independent booking agent. George Henry Hathaway (1843-1931) was a businessman and a booking agent for the Boston Lyceum Bureau. In 1874, they formed the booking firm Hathway & Pond and bought the Boston Lyceum Bureau from James Redpath. It became the Redpath Lyceum Bureau. They specialized in the promotion of lectures, concerts, and tours for Mark Twain, Ellen Terry, P.T. Barnum, Booker T. Washington, Charles Dickens, and many others throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 1897, Pond moved his headquarters to New York City and their partnership dissolved. Both Pond and Hathaway continued their successful careers as booking agents, Hathaway becoming President of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau in 1903.