John Emory McClintock was born on September 19, 1840 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of John McClintock and Caroline Augusta Wakeman. His father, a devoted clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, taught mathematics, Greek, and Latin at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At the age of 14, young Emory (he dropped "John" to distinguish himself from his father) enrolled in the College as a freshman with a concentration in mathematics. He withdrew in 1856 to study at Yale, yet he ultimately received his degree from Columbia University in 1859.

Joseph Franklin Culver was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on November 3, 1834. He grew up in the town and enrolled in the local Dickinson College with the class of 1857. A popular and involved student who thoroughly absorbed the Methodist atmosphere of the institution. He was elected to the Belle Lettres Society at the College but withdrew before graduating to study law with William J. Shearer of Carlisle. He also studied at the Iron City Commercial College for a time, then left Pennsylvania for Ohio soon after.

Thomas Bowman was born in Briarcreek Township near Berwick, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1817.  His father was a successful businessman and the family had been Methodists since Francis Asbury had converted, and later ordained, Bowman's grandfather, also named Thomas, in 1780.  Young Thomas was educated in the local schoolhouse and then entered Wilbraham Academy in Massachusetts for a year, progressing to the Casenovia Seminary in New York where he studied for three years.  He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a junior in 1835 and graduated as valedictorian

*Brown, James Given    Carlisle, Pa.; physician; practiced in Carlisle; B. L. society. Died 1859.

*Brown, W. H.    Alexandria, Va.; B. L. society; farmer; resided at Nokesville, Va., for many years and is supposed to be dead.

*Brown, William T.    Carlisle, Pa.; B. L. society. Last address, 212 Market street, Philadelphia, Pa. Further record unknown.

*Brown, John    Born May 20, 1793, in Queen Anne county, Md.; lawyer; member of the legislature of Maryland. Died July 29, 1876, in Queen Anne county, Md.

*Brown, John B.    Queen Anne county, Md.; U. P. society; for many years a lawyer in Centreville, Md., and died there    date unknown.