Jaimes Naismith was born in Altmonte, Ontario, the second of the three children of Scottish immigrants.  He lost both his parents to typhoid when he was nine but grew up to graduate from McGill University with a degree in Physical Education in 1880.  He is largely credited with inventing the game of basketball while teaching at Springfield College in Massachusetts, then called the International YMCA Training School. In later years, he taught for several decades at the University of Kansas.  He died in Lawrence, Kansas in November 1939. (By John Osborne)

Frederic Remington was born in Canton, New York, the son of a newspaper editor who served through the Civil War and reached the rank of colonel. He attended Yale University and became one of the country's most popular artists, specializing in scenes from the West,  and the Army in action against the Plains Indians and in the Spanish-American War.  He died after emergency surgery at age forty-eight in December 1909.  He is buried in Canton.  (By John Osborne)

Eliphalet Remington was born in 1793 in Suffield, Connecticut, the son of a blacksmith.  He took to building firearms at an early age and developed his famous factory at Illion, New York with his three sons.  Large contracts for weapons came with the Mexican War in 1846 and the firm was engaged in producing 5000 Harpers Ferry rifles for the Union Army at the time of Remington's death.  His sons continued the company, which is now the oldest continuously operating manufacturer in North America. (By John Osborne)