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Robert Parr Whitfield was born on May 27, 1828, in New Hartford, New York.

He was a paleontologist and the first curator of the American Museum of Natural History. He was self-educated and possessed tremendous drawing skills. He collected fossils and began to assist the New York State Survey in 1856. In 1858, he became assistant to Professor James Hall in Albany, New York. In 1870, Whitfield was appointed curator of the New York State Museum. During his twenty-year association with Prof. Hall, Whitfield prepared thousands of drawings of various fossil groups, e.g., graptolites, crinoids, and brachiopods. He was appointed Professor of Geology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (1872-1878). In 1877, he was hired by the American Museum of Natural History to curate and care for the James Hall Collection. He started as a Curator of Geology, and by 1885, his title changed to Curator of Geological, Mineralogical and Conchological Department. Whitfield helped found the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History and published many papers and articles. He received an honorary M. A. degree from Wesleyan University in 1882. He was an original Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

In 1847, he married Mary Henry (1827-). He died on April 6, 1910, in Troy, New York.

Clifton John Findlay Whiten was born in 1939 in Vernon, British Columbia.

He was a Canadian poet, editor, teacher, and small press publisher. He worked as a reporter and poetry editor for the Penticton Herald before becoming a teacher. He taught English at a high school in Malton, Ontario. He published his debut collection of poems, “Putting the Birthdate into Perspective,” in 1969. Whiten spent years trying to publish a follow-up collection, submitting the work to nine publishers under various titles. In 1979, he left teaching and founded his own small press, Sandpiper Press, which published his second collection of poems, “Various Titles: Selected poems, 1970-1978.” The same year, Whiten launched Poetry Canada Review, Canada's earliest poetry tabloid. He edited the magazine until 1984 when he sold it to ECW Press. He was editor of the Mattawa Recorder (Mattawa, Ontario) in 1988 and publisher and editor of the Raven Review (North Bay, Ontario) from 1995.

He was married to Barbara Jean Stevens and had two daughters, Shauna Jean and Meghan Anne. He died on May 3, 2003, in North Bay, Ontario.

Bruce Whiteman (born David Bruce Whiteman) was born on June 18, 1952, in Southern Ontario.

He is a Canadian poet, translator, editor, librarian, and essayist. He was educated at Trent University and the University of Toronto. After working as a Rare Books Department librarian at McMaster and McGill Universities, he moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to become a head librarian at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, a position he held until 2010. Whiteman has published extensively as a poet, scholar, cultural historian, and book reviewer. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including his long ongoing prose poem “The Invisible World is in Decline,” which has now reached the eighth book, with the ninth and final volume due for publication in 2022. His scholarly books include “Lasting Impressions: A Short History of English Publishing in Quebec” (1994) and “J.E.H. Macdonald” (1995). He has also written bibliographies of Leonard Cohen (1980) and Raymond Souster (1984). Whiteman lives in Peterborough, Ontario and regularly contributes book reviews and essays to publications such as TriQuarterly, Rattle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Frederic Cope Whitehouse was born on November 6, 1842, in Rochester, New York, son of Episcopal bishop Henry John Whitehouse (1803-1874).

He was an archeologist, Egyptologist, author, engineer, and lawyer. He graduated from Columbia University (B.A., 1861; M.A., 1863) and continued his studies in France, Germany, and Italy. In 1871, he was admitted to the Bar of New York state. He later devoted much of his time to historical and scientific research and became an honorary and corresponding member of various learned societies in the United States, Europe, and Egypt. His research included a survey of Lake Moeris in Egypt, a site of engineering works during Ancient Egypt, Fingal's Cave, and the Caves of Staffa. Whitehouse took a deep interest in the better regulation of the waters of the Nile, and he wrote many papers on utilizing it as a reservoir for storing the surplus waters during the flood periods. For his research work, the Khedive of Egypt awarded him Grand Commander of the Medjidie. Whitehouse was an honorary member of the Chicago Historical Society and the Metropolitan Club of New York City.

He died unmarried on November 16, 1911, in New York City, New York.