Robert Skakel Knight was born on May 27, 1841, in Quebec, Canada to Robert Knight (1811-c.1863), a Scottish missionary priest to Frampton, Quebec.

He was an author. In 1876, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He resigned in 1895 when he moved to Lancaster, Glengarry County, Ontario. He published the book "Exercises in English Composition, With an Introductory Chapter on Analysis" (1876).

In 1871, he married Clara Beatrice Warner Schomberg (1834–1877), and circa 1880 he married Dorothea Elizabeth Wolters (1852- ). He died on May 16, 1900.

John Kneeland was likely a relative of Nancy Kneeland, wife of Joseph Hall. He lived in Boston in 1818.

Robert Henry Klock was born on January 9, 1824, in Hull, Outaouais Region, Quebec.

He was a lumberman in the Ottawa Valley. In the 1860s, together with his father and brothers, they established the Klock Lumber Company south of Mattawa, Ontario. The thriving area became known as the town of Klock’s Mill which existed until the Depression of the 1930s. In the 1950s, due to the construction of the Holden Dam, the village was flooded.

He married Sarah Ann Murphy (1829-1884). He died on March 31, 1891, in Aylmer, Outaouais Region, Quebec.