Lanceford Bramblet Wilkes was born on March 27, 1824, in Maury County, Tennessee.

He was a preacher, educator, debater, writer, and leader in the American restoration movement. His family moved to Missouri when he was five. In 1849, he entered Bethany College, West Virginia, but soon returned to Missouri to attend State University. He participated in a series of discussions about the restoration movement. Wilkes taught and was appointed president of Christian College in Missouri in 1856. He preached in Hannibal, Missouri and Springfield, Illinois. In the 1880s, due to family health issues, Wilkes moved to California. He published the book "Moral Evil: Its Nature and Origin" (1892).

In 1854, he married Rebecca K. Bryan (1836–1888). He died on May 1, 1901, in Stockton, California.

Rev. Henry Wilkes was born on June 21, 1805, in Birmingham, England.

He was a businessman, educator, and Congregational minister. At fourteen, having already received sound business training at his father’s manufacturing business, he began to sell their products. The family immigrated to Canada in 1820, settling in Toronto and later in Brantford, Ontario. In 1822, he moved to Montreal, where he obtained employment as a clerk in the towing company of John Torrance and soon became his partner. In 1828, he moved to Glasgow, Scotland, to study theology at the Congregationalists’ Theological Academy and Glasgow University. Ordained in 1832, he began his ministry in Edinburgh in 1833. In 1836, the Colonial Missionary Society sent him to Canada. He became pastor at the First Congregational Church on Rue Saint-Maurice, Montreal. In 1842, he co-founded the Congregational Theological Institute to train pastors. Wilkes also served as president of the board of examiners for Protestant schools for twelve years. In 1869, he resigned as pastor to become principal of the Congregational Theological Institute.

In 1832, he married Lucy (Louisa) Hedge (1800–1838), in 1839, he remarried Susan Scott Holmes (1802–1850), and about 1852, Barbara McKeand (1826–). He died on November 17, 1886, in Montreal, Quebec.

Alfred Ernest Wileman was born on February 27, 1860, in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England.

He was a British diplomat and entomologist. He was appointed a Student Interpreter in Japan in 1882. In 1889, he was promoted a First Class Assistant at the Hiogo and Osaka Consular District. In 1891-1892, Wileman became Assistant Japanese Secretary and Acting Vice-Consul in Tokyo. He then served as the Acting Registrar to the Supreme Court for Japan in Yokohama (1896-1897). He was officially promoted to be the Vice-Consul at Hiogo and Osaka on December 28, 1896, and was several times Acting Consul there during 1898, residing at Kobe. Wileman was appointed as the British Vice Consul for the Japanese city of Hakodate and surrounding prefectures in April 1901 and moved to be consul to Taiwan in 1903 and to the then Territory of Hawaii in 1908. In 1909, he was appointed Consul-General to the Philippines (then a US territory). Wileman was an accomplished amateur lepidopterist, owning one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Japanese, Formosan and Philippine butterflies and moths ever assembled by a single individual. After his death, his widow Mabel Sarah Wileman donated his collection of butterflies and moths to the Natural History Department of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum in London.

In 1918, he married Mabel Sarah Gaskell Grundy (1869–1952). He died on February 15, 1929, while vacationing in Merton, France.

Samuel Hull Wilcocke was born around 1766 in Reigate, England, and died in 1833 in Quebec. He was the son of Reverend Samuel Wilcocke. He married in England sometime before 1817, but his wife’s name is unknown. Wilcocke resided in the Netherlands for a significant part of his childhood and was said to have studied in continental Europe before returning to England with his family in 1794. He wrote articles for British literary journals and translated texts written in German, Dutch, and French. Several of his publications focused on the East Indies and Buenos Aires. In 1800, Wilcocke moved to Liverpool, England, where he remained for seventeen years and participated in the literary and theatrical life of his local municipal. In 1817, Wilcocke moved to Canada with some of his children and their families, and worked as a publicist for the North West Company during its dispute with the Hudson’s Bay Company over the attempts of Lord Selkirk (1771-1820, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk) to establish a colony on the Red River. He published a book titled A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries of North America in 1817, and in 1818 and 1819, wrote reviews of three accounts of trials held during those years. In 1820, Wilcocke was suspected of possessing secret documents from the North West Company and fled to Burlington, Vermont, where he was arrested a few days later. He was imprisoned in Montreal for more than one year before going to trial and was acquitted of forgery and grand larceny, and was reimprisoned on charges of debt. He was released after pressure from the United States (where he was illegally seized) accomplished his release. In 1821, Wilcocke founded the newspaper called The Scribbler, in which he wrote about his critical stance against the North West Company and Montrealers of British origin. To avoid political discourse in The Scribbler, he founded the Free Press newspaper in 1822 to oppose the bill to unite Lower and Upper Canada. In 1823, Wilcocke moved to Rouses Point, New York, and founded the Harbinger newspaper. In 1827, he published The Colonial Magazine and returned to Montreal in 1828, where he wrote reports on the debates of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. From his notes, Wilcocke published his book titled The History of the Session of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada for 1828-29.