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Gamaliel Bradford was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford, was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. His grandfather, Dr. Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, was a noted abolitionist.
Bradford attended Harvard University briefly with the class of 1886, then continued his education with a private tutor, but is said to have been educated "mainly by ill-health and a vagrant imagination." As an adult, Bradford lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The building and student newspaper for the Wellesley High School (where Sylvia Plath received her secondary school education) were named after Gamaliel Bradford. The town changed the name of the building to Wellesley High School, but the newspaper maintains Bradford's name.
In his day Bradford was regarded as the "Dean of American Biographers." He is acknowledged as the American pioneer of the psychographic form of written biographies, after the style developed by Lytton Strachey. Despite suffering poor health during most of his life, Bradford wrote 114 biographies over a period of 20 years.

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Alvah Bradish (1806, Sherburne, New York - April 19, 1901, Detroit) was an American portrait painter and professor. During his career, he completed over 500 portraits of notable people in New York and Michigan; as well as many people who can no longer be identified. He also painted for brief periods in Canada and Jamaica. There is no record of any formal artistic training he may have had.

He was one of four sons born to Samuel Morton Bradish (1777-1812), a surveyor from Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife Mary Finch (1778-1843). After his father's death, his family moved to Fredonia, where he grew up.

From 1837 to 1846, he was an itinerant portrait painter, based in Rochester, New York. He was married in 1839, to Lydia Douglass-Houghton; daughter of Judge Jacob Houghton (1777-1861), originally of Boston, and Lydia Douglass (1780-1871). Her brother, Douglass Houghton, would become the first State Geologist of Michigan. They had 3 children.

After 1846, he returned to Fredonia, but also traveled extensively. The year 1849 found him in Kingston, Jamaica, where he sent some specimens of fish to the University of Michigan. This was prompted by the fact that his younger brother, Josiah (1810-1892), who had become a surveyor like his father, had gone to Michigan in 1836, at the invitation of Houghton, and settled there permanently a few years later.

In 1850, Alvah was induced to follow him and settled near Detroit. Two years later, he was engaged to lecture on the fine arts at the University, and presented with an honorary Master of Arts degree, along with the title of Professor. For six years, however, he received no compensation and was not allowed to teach; merely accumulating relevant materials. He finally obtained permission to teach a few courses and, in 1861, the senior class requested that he be permitted to lecture them. In 1863, the courses he had been teaching were summarily discontinued. He then quit his position and returned to Detroit, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

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Janet Braide nee Harbron, was born in Toronto in 1924. She attended Lawrence Park Collegiate followed by attending Trinity College, University of Toronto where she graduated with a B.A. in Geography in 1948. In 1949 she married David Braide, with whom she had three children, Robert, Martha and Mary Jane.

While living in Ontario Janet Braide developed an interest in the decorative arts, and upon her moving to Montreal in 1965, sh returned to school to study under Russell Harper in one of the first courses given in Canada on the history of Canadian Art. Braide enrolled in a number of art history courses at Concordia University and eventually received her M.F.A. in Art History from that institution.

Based on work for her thesis, which was on the artist William Brymer, Braide curated an extensive travelling exhibition as a guest curator for the Agnes Etherington Gallery at Queen's University. She also curated a number of other shows on Canadian artists such as Anne Savage and Prudence Heward. In addition to guest curating Braide wrote and lectured extensively. As a lecturer and cataloguer, Mrs. Braide was associated with the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Macdonald-Stewart Foundation and the Musée du Quebec in Quebec City. As an art historian, she wrote for The Canadian Collector, The Journal of Canadian Art History and was an art critic for the Montreal Star from 1967-1971.
Braide passed away February 26, 1987 of pancreatic cancer.

Florence Gwendolen Lazier was born in 1905. In 1924, at the age of 18, Miss Lazier rode a horse from Belleville, Ontario to Washington, D.C. to invite then President Calvin Coolige to attend the 140th anniversary of the United Empire Loyalists. During the trip, which took 32 days, Miss Lazier met a number of notables including ex-President Howard Taft, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U.S, Lady Peel and Lord Byng, Arthur Meighen and Mackenzie King. She passed away in October 2007.

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V.K. Brais was a photographer based in Kingston, ON.