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Dr. Horace Preston Hoskins was born on January 3, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was an American veterinarian and editor. Dr. Hoskins became an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Science and Assistant Veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. He served as an editor of the North American Veterinarian and was later named editor emeritus of Modern Veterinary Practice. From 1923 until 1939, Dr. Hoskins served as an editor of The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

In 1913, he married Anna M. Smith (1880–). He died on May 30, 1967, in Evanston, Cook, Illinois.

Self-made millionaire Charles Hosmer was born in Coteau-Landing, Quebec. Beginning as a telegraph operator for the Grand Trunk Railway, he was later hired by Dominion Telegraph Company; he soon became superintendent, then president. In 1880, he was appointed general manager of Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraph Service. Retiring from the telegraph business, of which he was by then the most outstanding figure in Canadian telegraphy, Hosmer moved on to become one of Montreal’s most important financiers; he eventually was president of Ogilvie Flour Milling Company and vice-president of Laurentide Pulp and Paper Company, as well as director of 26 other companies. In addition, he undertook an initiative on behalf of his friend César Ritz to bring a luxury hotel to Montreal. With the support of a group of businessmen, the Carlton Hotel Company, investment arrangements were begun in 1909, and the first guests were welcomed in 1912.
Hosmer had married Clara Jane Bigelow in 1878 and they had two children, Elwood Bigelow and Olive. Summers were spent in their “Hillcrest” mansion in St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick. For some time he had wanted a Montreal house for his family appropriate to his prosperous circumstances. In 1900 he commissioned architect Edward Maxwell, who had designed the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, to design a luxurious house for him. “Hosmer House” (3630 Promenade-Sir-William-Osler) was built by 1901 with each room in a different style, and with wall space to show off his art collection. The architect’s brother, William Sutherland Maxwell, renovated the gallery and constructed a new foyer in 1904. Hosmer’s wife died in 1926 and he himself in 1927 after a long illness. That same year, Elwood and some friends attempted to cross the Atlantic leaving from England (in a Dormier-Napier flying boat named the “Whale”), but failed. The next year they tried again, leaving from Lisbon, but crashed near the Azores where they were lucky to be rescued after 12 hours. Elwood’s father had left him and his sister $20 million. In 1969 McGill University bought Hosmer House and in 2005, the Quebec government decreed it to be part of the “Site patrimonial du Mont-Royal.”

Dr. Franklin Benjamin Hough was born on July 20, 1822, in Martinsburg, Lewis County, New York.

He was a physician, scientist, historian, statistician, and a "father of American forestry." He studied medicine at Western Reserve College (M.D., 1848) and practiced in Somerville, N.Y. from 1848 to 1852. He was a pioneer historian of counties in New York State and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New York in 1872 and in 1876, he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hough was extremely active in making known the depletion of American forests and in 1885, he drafted the law that led to the preservation of the Adirondack Forest. He published several reports on forest management. He is the author of "A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York" (1853) and "A History of Jefferson County in the State of New York" (1854).

In 1845, he married Sarah Maria Eggleston (1816–1848) and in 1849, he remarried Mariah Ellen Kilham (1829–1910). He died on June 11, 1885, in Lowville, Lewis, New York.