British electrical engineer Charles Carus-Wilson, was educated at Cambridge University’s Pembroke College and the Royal Engineering College. After receiving his Master’s degree, he was sent to Bucharest to install electrical lighting in the palace of the king of Romania. On his return to England in 1887, he was appointed to the staff at Cooper’s Hill College where he worked until 1890 when he received a post as professor of electrical engineering at McGill University in Montreal. In 1892 he married author Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie, one of the first women to graduate from London’s University College. In 1898 they returned to England where Carus-Wilson began a practice of consulting engineering in Westminster and lectured frequently at University College. He also presented papers before the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the Physical Society. His book, “Electrodynamics: the direct current motor” went through many editions. His youngest daughter, Eleanora Mary (1897-1977), born in Canada, became a professor at the London School of Economics, specializing in English commerce during the Middle Ages.

Jonathan Carver (April 13, 1710 – January 31, 1780) was a colonial American explorer and writer. He was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and then moved with his family to Canterbury, Connecticut. In 1755 Carver joined the Massachusetts colonial militia at the start of the French and Indian War. In 1757, Carver, a friend of Robert Rogers, enlisted with Burke's Rangers. Burke's Rangers would in 1758 become a part of Rogers' Rangers. During the war he studied surveying and mapping techniques. He was successful in the military and eventually became captain of a Massachusetts regiment in 1761. Two years later he quit the army with a determination to explore the new territories acquired by the British as a result of the war. Initially Carver was unable to find a sponsor for his proposed explorations but in 1766, Robert Rogers contracted Carver to lead an expedition to find a western water route to the Pacific Ocean, the Northwest Passage. There was a great incentive to discover this route. The king and Parliament had promised a vast prize in gold for any such discovery. The eastern route to the Pacific was around the Cape of Good Hope. That route was both lengthy and contested by competing European powers. In 1766-67 he explored parts of present-day Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, mainly along the upper Mississippi River. When he returned east, however, his efforts were not recognized. He sailed to England in 1769, seeking recompense, and remained there for the rest of his life. In 1778 he published a book on his travels, which became very successful. He died in 1780.

Theodore Spencer Case was born on January 26, 1832, in Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.

He was a physician and a Civil war Union Army officer. In 1856, he graduated from the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. In 1883, he received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and he settled in Kansas City. He worked as an editor of the Medical Review (1860-1861) and held the office of an alderman (1860). In 1861, he became 2nd lieutenant of the 25th Missouri Infantry and later captain and assistant quartermaster. In 1865, he was made colonel and quartermaster general. He also worked as curator of the University of Missouri, postmaster of Kansas City (1873-1885), and in 1885, he became professor of chemistry at Kansas City Medical College. He edited the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry (1877-1885) and in 1886, he became president of the Kansas City Real Estate and Stock Exchange.

In 1858, he married Julia McCoy Lykins (1839–1872) and in 1872, he remarried Fidelia Olivia Wright (1845–1908). He died on February 16, 1900, in Kansas City, Missouri.