Hugh Huger Toland was born April 16, 1806, the son of a South Carolina planter and banker. At age sixteen he "read" medicine and worked in the local apothecary shop.

Richard Beverly Cole was born in Manchester, Virginia in 1829. His family moved to Philadelphia soon thereafter.

Abraham Arnold D'Ancona was born in San Francisco and received his undergraduate degree at UC in 1880.

Herbert C. Moffitt was born in San Francisco in 1867. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Howard Naffziger was born in Nevada City, California in 1884. He attended UC Berkeley and graduated from the Medical School in 1908.

William J. Kerr was born in 1889. He received his medical training at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1915.

Herbert McLean Evans was born in Modesto, California in 1882. His father was the leading surgeon in the small town.

Karl F. Meyer was born in 1884 in Basel, Switzerland. He graduated from the University of Zurich where he studied biology and zoology.

LeRoy H. Briggs was born in Oakland in 1883. He attended public school there, and later the University of California at Berkeley.

C. H. Li was born in Canton, China in 1913. He received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Nanking in 1933.

R. Langley Porter was born in Montreal, Canada in 1870. He attended Pennsylvania Military Academy, then came to California.

H. Glenn Bell was born on a farm in Ohio in 1892. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati and attended its medical school.

John Bertrand deCusance Morant Saunders was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, on July 2, 1903.

Helen Nahm was born in Missouri in 1901. She attended the University of Missouri, receiving the diploma in Nursing in 1924.

Julius H. Comroe was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1911. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School in 1934.