Edward Horatio Krans was born at St. Armand, Quebec in 1845.
He attended McGill University, where he obtained a Governor General's scholarship (B.A., first rank honors in logic and gold medalist in English literature, 1865), M.A., 1875; LL.D., 1887. He studied law for a time with Sir John Abbott, but subsequently entered the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained to the diaconate in the Episcopal Church and became assistant minister of St. Mary's Church in New York. From 1869 to 1874 he was rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Boston and from 1874 to 1892 he was assistant rector of the Hearing and Speaking Congregation of St. Ann's Church in New York. He was also a trustee and first vice-president of the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes; president of the New York Graduates' Society of McGill University, and president of the New York Churchmen's Association. He was one of the originators, and during two terms president of the New York Clericus.
Rev. Krans published many sermons and other papers. In 1872 he married Charlotta W. Sheafe of Boston. He died in 1900 in New York.

Ernst Kranck was born in 1898 in Birkala, Finland. He grew up in Finland and was educated at the University of Helsinki earning a B.A. in 1916, a Masters degree in 1923 and a PhD. in 1933. He spent the early part of his career working as a geologist in Finland, Siberia, Canada, Tierra del Fuego and Greenland. From 1930 to 1945 he served as Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Helsinki. In 1945 he obtained a position as Professor of Geology at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, specializing in geomorphology and petrology. In 1948 he came to McGill as a Visiting Professor of Geology in the Department of Geological Sciences, and joined the permanent staff in 1951 until his retirement in 1969. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1962. His research specialties were Precambrian geology, structural geology and petrology. Already before coming to Canada as a Visiting Professor he undertook many field trips to Canada, Lappland, Finland, Scotland and Switzerland. Most of his published works deal with his field work in Canada’s far north. Ernst Kranck died in 1989.

Richard Cory Kostelanetz was born on May 14, 1940, in New York City, New York.

He is an American artist, author, editor, and literary critic. He graduated from Brown University (B.A., 1962) and Columbia University (M.A., 1966). He also studied at King's College London as a Fulbright Scholar from 1964 to 1965. Kostelanetz started his career by publishing essays in Partisan Review and The Hudson Review, then profiles of older artists, musicians and writers in The New York Times Magazine. These profiles were collected and published as “Master Minds" (1969). Among his other works are "Visual Language" (1970), "In the Beginning" (1971), "Short Fictions" (1974), "The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America" (1974), and "SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony" (2003). He also edited the anthologies, e.g., “On Contemporary Literature” (1964, 1969), “Beyond Left & Right” (1968), “John Cage” (1970, 1991), “Moholy-Nagy” (1970), “Breakthrough Fictioneers” (1973), “Scenarios” (1980), and “The Literature of SoHo” (1981). Kostelanetz produced literature in audio, video, holography, prints, book-art, and computer-based installations. He is the recipient of many grants from various organizations, e.g., the Guggenheim Foundation (1967), Pulitzer Foundation (1965), the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm (1981–1983), Vogelstein Foundation (1980), Fund for Investigative Journalism (1981), and the National Endowment for the Arts (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981-1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991).