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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Havelock_Robb

Jeremiah Simmons was a resident and town clerk of Trenton, Ontario.

Thomas Rutherford was a carpenter and builder who lived in Belleville, Ontario.

E.J. Douglas Rollins was a businessman from Belleville, Ontario, and was MPP for Quinte from 1995 to 1999. Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Rollins

Roland Woolsey was a journalist and editor. He was born in Norwich, England on 12 January 1862 and died in Toronto, Ontario on 13 December 1938.

Barry Bevan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1943. He worked as a teacher in Belleville, Ontario, and was active in the Belleville Sea Cadets (R.C.S.C.C. 'Quinte'). He died on 26 May 2019.

E. S. Bennett was the publisher and editor of The Stirling Leader newspaper, published in Stirling, Ontario, from 1914 to 1922. There was an Edward Bennett, aged 45, listed in the 1921 census in Stirling. He was an Ontario-born printer and was married to a woman called Mary.

The Deseronto Board of Trade was established on 27 March 1902.

Pat Culhane had a career as a nurse at the Belleville General Hospital and was a City Councillor and an active community member of Belleville, Ontario until her death. Her obituary is available at https://intelligencer.remembering.ca/obituary/patricia-culhane-1080807767

The Anglican parish of St. Mark’s was founded in Deseronto (the Mill Point) in 1876 under The Rev. E. H. M. Baker and named after his church of ordination in Britain. In 1880 The Rev. Thomas Stanton was appointed the first incumbent of the new St. Mark’s church and, according to Anglican tradition the first ‘official’ service did not take place until the building was nearing completion in 1887. Consecration of the building did not occur until 1892 when the debt for construction was paid off. The church was deconsecrated at the end of 2001 and became a private residence in 2003.

Muriel Kathleen Galbraith was born in Toronto on 28 August 1904, the child of James Galbraith and Mary Priscilla (Turnbull). She married Evan Allin on 20 September 1930. She lived in Deseronto, Ontario, in her later years and took a keen interest in the history of the town. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer. Kay Allin died on 9 November 1997.

Harry Danford is a dairy farmer and former politician who farms in Stirling-Rawdon Township, Ontario. He was elected as MPP for Hastings-Peterborough in 1995 and served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister for Agriculture for the five-year term. Wikipedia article

Deseronto United Church began as a Methodist Episcopal congregation. A church was built on the northeast corner of Fourth and Thomas Streets in Deseronto, Ontario, in 1877 and the building underwent many enlargements and alterations. It was closed as a place of worship in October 2020.

Laura May Snider was born in 1919, the child of William E. Snider and Eva Leona (Burgess). She married Kenneth Ray Bush on 8 June 1938 and died at the Belleville General Hospital on 31 January 2010.

Lewis Wallbridge Yeomans was born in Belleville, Ontario on 24 May 1845, the child of Asa Yeomans and Charlotte Herkimer. He was a druggist by profession. Yeomans married Florence Howard Jones on 23 June 1874. He died on 19 October 1896 of suffocation after a fire at his drugstore at what is currently [2020] 302 Front Street.

John Barrett McGann was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1810. He trained as a land surveyor and then taught in a public school for 14 years. He left Ireland for America in 1854 and became interested in the education of deaf-mute children. He moved to Toronto as a teacher in 1855 and by 1858 was running a school for deaf children. The school closed in 1864 and McGann reopened it at Dundurn Castle in Hamilton. Its funding was precarious and in 1870 the Government of Ontario took over responsibility for the school at new premises in Belleville, Ontario. McGann was the resident superintendent of the Ontario Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb in Belleville from 1870 until his death in January 1880. He was buried in the Belleville Cemetery.

Marrison Studio was a photography studio based in Kingston, Ontario.