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Edward Blythe Maxwell was born in December 1900, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was the son of Edward Maxwell, well known Montreal architect. He was educated at Lower Canada College and McGill University where he graduated in engineering in 1921. Shortly after he joined the lumber firm E. J. Maxwell Limited, founded by his grandfather Edward John Maxwell. Later he became its president.

He was a member of the board of governors of Lower Canada College as well as vice-president of the Old Boys Association of the school. At McGill University he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, and later joined the University Club, the Royal Montreal Golf Club, and the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club.

In 1925, he married Ruth Catherine Ballantyne. He died on May 30, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec.

Alexander A. Maximow was born in Russia on January 22, 1874. He earned his M.D. at the Imperial Military Academy in St. Petersburg, where he showed a keen interest in morphological problems and won special distinction for his work on the experimental production of amyloid. After two years of study in Berlin and Frieburg, he returned to St. Petersburg in 1902 as Privat-Dozent in pathology. He remained there as professor of histology and embryology from 1903 until 1922, at which point he came to the University of Chicago as aprofessor of anatomy, a position he held until his death in 1928.