John Keir was born on February 2, 1780, in Bucklyvie, parish of Kippen, Scotland.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman and educator. In 1799, he entered the University of Glasgow but did not graduate. He taught school during training in divinity at the theological hall of the General Associate Synod in Whitburn (1803-1806). About 1807 he was licensed by the Presbytery of Glasgow and in 1808, attracted to the colonial missions, he sailed to Nova Scotia to serve at the Secession congregation in Halifax. In 1810, he was assigned to Prince Edward Island where he was ordained at the Princetown (Malpeque) congregation. He was also active in the promotion of education, especially a mission to encourage sabbath schools on the Island. By 1827 the Prince Town Female Society, established in 1825 in Keir’s congregation with his wife as a treasurer, was purchasing books for such schools. In 1822, he presided over the creation of a school at Princetown and became its rector. The school was recognized as the district grammar school in 1825. He also established a library for his parishioners. In the 1850s, he was president of the first Literary and Scientific Society on the Island and a member of the provincial board of health. In 1843, Keir was named Principal Professor of Theology at the Presbyterian Divinity College for the Lower Provinces. In 1852, he received an honorary degree of D.D. from Amherst College, Massachusetts. He was the author of the book "Course of Study in Systematic and Pastoral Theology and Ecclesiastical History, for Students Attending the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia" (1857). His house in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, is registered as a Canadian Landmark and is known today as Keir House.

In 1808, he married Mary Burnett. He died on September 23, 1858, in Truro, Colchester County, Nova Scotia.

Monika Kehoe was born in 1909 in Dayton, Ohio. She was a specialist in applied linguistics and its applications to bilingualism and second-language learning. She was educated at Mary Manse College (B.A. 1932) and Ohio State University where she received her PhD in English in 1935. She was Professor of English at Marianopolis College, Montréal from 1964 to 1971. During this period she co-authored The Laurel and the Poppy with McGill Professor Margaret Gillett, and contributed to Applied Linguistics: a Survey for College Teachers (1968). She passed away in San Francisco in 2004.

Edwin Francis Keever was born on May 18, 1864, in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

He was a clergyman. He graduated from Muhlenberg College and entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He graduated in 1889 and began his career in the ministry in the West where he served in Washington, Utah, and Oregon for 4 years. He served with the troops on the U.S. border during the Mexican war (1846-1848) and also World War I (1914-1918). Upon his return from the War, he lectured for the National Lutheran Council, later becoming student pastor at Harvard University. In 1921, he moved to Wilmington, N.C. to become the highly-esteemed pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church. He served 60 years as an ordained minister. He was a member of the Exchange Club, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wilmington Light Infantry, and was a captain in the in-active reserve of the U.S. Army. The Wilmington Exchange club established the "Citizenship Award" in his honour.

In 1892, he married Sarah or Sadie Elizabeth Durr (1864–1927). He died on December 17, 1949, in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina.