Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Frederick Tracy Dent (1820-1892) served as a career military officer for the United States Army, and was captain of the 9th United States Infantry at Fort Walla Walla from approximately 1859-1860. Dent participated in the Spokane and Yakima expeditions, and engaged in the battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains during the Yakima War. Dent was brother-in-law to Ulysses S. Grant and served as a military secretary for President Grant from 1869 to 1873.

Lee Kelly was born in McCall, Idaho, in 1932. In 1945, his family moved to Portland, Oregon. He studied art at Vanport College, which later became Portland State University. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and worked as a cartographer. After he returned to Portland in 1954, he continued studying art at the Museum School, which later became the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He became an artist and sculptor, and his works are on display in many cities in the Pacific Northwest.

John "Jack" Cabeen Beatty, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., in 1919. His family moved to the Dunthorpe neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in 1920. He attended Princeton University and graduated in 1941. He served as an artilleryman in the U.S. Army in the European Theater during World War II. In 1943, he and Clarissa Hagar were married; they later had two children. He earned a law degree from Columbia University Law School in 1948. He and his family then returned to Oregon, and he worked as a trial lawyer in Portland from 1948 to 1970. He was appointed as a judge on the Multnomah County Circuit Court in 1970 by Governor Tom McCall, and took senior status in 1984. He also served on the boards of Portland Public Schools and the Oregon Historical Society. Clarissa Beatty died in 1996, and he and Virginia Rupp were married the following year. In his later years, he was also an author and published several novels, including his autobiography. He died in 2016.

Richard Scott Teitsworth was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1951. A few years later, his family relocated to New Jersey. He went to New Canaan High School, graduating in 1969. He attended Stanford University for one quarter in 1970. He joined the Portland Fire Bureau in 1972, and then the Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue in 1974, retiring in 1998. In 1977, he and Deborah Buchanan were married; they later had two children.

He authored the books "The Path to the Guru: The Science of Self-Realization According to the Bhagavad Gita" and "Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds: The Bhagavad Gita as Psychedelic Guide." He also edited the following works of Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati: "That Alone: The Core of Wisdom, A Commentary on the One Hundred Verses of Self-Instruction of Narayana Guru" and "Love and Blessings: The Autobiography of Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati."

Flora Cushinway Thompson, also named La moosh Cush-nee-yi, was born in 1898. In the 1940s, she and Tommy Thompson, leader of the Wyams, were married. She was active in the attempt to prevent the construction of The Dalles Dam. She died in 1978.

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis, nee Bouvier, was born in Southampton, New York, in 1929. She attended Vassar College in 1947 and then studied abroad through Smith College at the University of Grenoble and at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, from 1949 to 1950. She completed her undergraduate studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., earning as bachelor of arts in French literature in 1951. She and John F. Kennedy were married in 1953. She was the first lady of the United States from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 1963. In 1968, she and Aristotle Onassis were married. After Aristotle Onassis's death in 1975, she worked as book editor for Viking and Doubleday. She died in 1994.