James William Brackenridge was born on May 22, 1845, in Perthshire, Scotland.

In 1874, he immigrated to Montreal, Quebec. He received a degree of B.C.L. and worked as a Secretary of McGill University.

He died on May 17, 1913, in Montreal, Quebec.

Amory Howe Bradford was born on April 14, 1846, in Granby, Oswego County, New York.
He was a Congregational pastor and author. In 1867, he graduated from Hamilton College, N.Y. In 1870, he graduated from Andover Theological Seminary, Massachusetts and was ordained a Congregational minister. He became the pastor of First Congregational Church of Montclair, New Jersey (1871-1911). During this period, he published fifteen books. He emphasized spiritual fellowship, strict civic control, village improvement, missionary work, and local temperance. In 1884, he studied at Oxford University, England. He was associate editor of the Outlook magazine from 1892 to1899. In 1892, he was named president of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy and in the years 1892 and 1893 he delivered the Southworth Lectures at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1895, he travelled to Japan to inspect American missionary efforts. From 1901 to 1903 he was a moderator of the National Council, the foremost position in the Congregational fellowship. In 1904, he was named president of the American Missionary Association.
He died on February 18, 1911, in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey.

Alexander Priestly or Priestley Bradley was born on October 26, 1824, or 1831, in Portland, New Brunswick.

He was a Canadian Civil Servant in the 1880s and 1890s in New Brunswick and Ontario. From 1882 to 1893, he was a Secretary of the Department of Railways and Canals at Kingston Mills, one of 24 lock stations of the Rideau Canal system.

He died on March 24, 1903, in Carlton, Ontario.