Frederick G. Todd was born March 11, 1876, in Concord, New Hampshire. He moved to Montreal in 1900, and established practice as a landscape architect. He died February 15, 1948.
William Tobin was born in England and came to Canada as a young man. In 1903 he took a job as a laboratory assistant in the Faculty of Medicine, and two years later he became caretaker of the Medical Students' Reading Room and porter of the Medical Building, a post he held until his retirement in 1937. Tobin was elected as "King Cook III", guest of honour and the focus of elaborate satire and practical joking at Medical student banquets from 1913 until 1927.