Thomas Emerson Hodgson was born in 1854 in Quebec City, Quebec. In 1879, he became the business associate with James Gardner and G. Summer in 1879 to form Hodgson, Summer & Co. This company took over a wholesale company, which dealt with importing and the sale of clothes and raw materials. He died in 1926 in Montreal, Quebec.

Nathaniel Dana Carlile Hodges was born on April 19, 1852, in Salem, Massachusetts.

He was an American librarian. He studied chemistry and physics in Hanover and Heidelberg, Germany, and also attended Harvard University (B.A., 1874; M.A., 1879) where he was appointed an assistant in physics in 1879. He taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1882 to 1883 and served as editor of Science Magazine from 1885 to 1894. He became the Library Director of the Cincinnati Public Library in 1900 and retired from that position in 1924. Hodges served as the president of the American Library Association from 1909 to 1910. He was named a Notable Ohio Librarian in the Hall of Fame in 1980.

In 1886, he married Adele Louise Goepper (1858-1946). He died on November 25, 1927, in Mount Healthy, Ohio.

Charles Hodge was born on December 27, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was a Presbyterian theologian and principal of Princeton Theological Seminary (1851-1878). He graduated from Princeton University in 1815. He became professor of biblical literature at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1822 and professor of theology in 1840 until his retirement in 1877. In 1846, he served for one year as moderator of the “Old School” Presbyterian Church. Hodge constructed an influential “Systematic Theology” (3 vols., 1871–1873) and wrote numerous biblical commentaries. He published "What is Darwinism?" (1874), claiming that Darwinism, was, in essence, atheism. For 46 years he edited the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, a journal that he founded in 1825 and to which he contributed nearly 150 articles.

In 1822, he married Sarah Bache (1798–1849). He died on June 19, 1878, in Princeton, New Jersey.