Henry Hemming was born on November 30, 1819, in London, England.

He arrived in Canada in 1852. He was a civil servant, accountant, and bookkeeper at Canada's Secretary Office of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1848, he married Clarissa Hemming (1820–1894). He died on January 17, 1903, in Toronto, Ontario.

Hemmingford is situated in Huntingdon County, about 64 km south of Montréal and 6 km north of the U.S. border. Formerly known as Scrivers Corners, after an early settler, it took its present name from a village in Huntingdonshire, England.

Hemmingford is situated in Hemmingford Township, about 64 km south of Montréal and 6 km north of the U.S. border.

Henry Hemphill was born on February 11, 1830, in Wilmington, Delaware.

He was an American malacologist, a biologist who studies mollusks. A mason and bricklayer by profession, he worked as a bricklayer in San Diego in 1865, after making gold prospecting trips in the western states. He started to collect mollusks as early as 1861. He collected extensively along the coast of California, as well as during trips to Florida and British Columbia. He published catalogues of shells for sale from the 1870s to 1890. He retired to Oakland around 1909.

In 1852, he married Martha Elizabeth Prescott (1833–1860). He died on July 25, 1914, in Oakland, Alameda, California as a result of contact with arsenic.

Henderson & Hooke was a commerce based on Cobourg, Ontario. They did business with Robertson Masson & Co.