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H. Ross Wiggs, architect and painter, was born in Quebec City in 1895. He studied Architecture at McGill University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Montreal, he practiced architecture from 1933 to 1967, primarily on his own and with partners Lawton and Walker from 1955 to 1967. He studied drawing and painting with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. Wiggs served in the First World War and his war drawings are in the collection of the War Museum in Ottawa. Drawings of houses designed by the architect painter and executed once the houses were completed are in the family collection of his work. Wiggs was also Chairman of the Historical and Fine Buildings Committee from 1953 to 1954. He died in 1986 in Hamilton, Ontario.

Albert Bowman Wiggin was born on January 10, 1820, in Vassalborough, Maine.

He was a schoolteacher. He studied at Colby College, Waterville, Maine (M.A., 1843). He spent forty years teaching at various schools in Maine (North Yarmouth Academy, high schools in Augusta and Bath) and served as principal of the high school in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Wiggin was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a historian of the Wiggin Family Association.

In 1843, he married Abigail Almeda Clark (1820–1857), in 1859, he remarried Lucy Christina Sedgwick (1830–1875), and in 1877, Emily M. Emma Goodale (1828–1906). He died on July 11, 1911, in Pepperell, Massachusetts.

Edward A. Wieland was born in February 1869, in New York to German immigrants. He studied at the Montreal Veterinary College from 1887 to 1889 and practiced as a veterinary surgeon in Buffalo, New York until 1934, when he died.

Rev. Frederick Widmer was born on January 22, 1835, in Troy, New York.

He was a clergyman. He studied and taught at Poultney Academy, Vermont. He got licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Albany, New York. Widmer continued his theological studies, as well as the studies of science and philosophy. In 1862, he was ordained deacon, and in 1864, elder. A unique preacher, he served at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Troy, New York.

In 1860, he married Anna Eliza Cutts (1833-1909). He died on June 25, 1891, in Salem, New York.