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The eldest suriving son of John Harkness and Catherine Fetterly, Robert Harkness was born in "Drunnard", the name of the family home, Matilda Township, on 18 October 1833. After attending primary school, and showing no interest in farming, his father established him in a general store, located in an old stone building, in Iroquois, Ontario. According to the family biographer, Robert, "although obviously intelligent [was] referred to often as 'erratic', given to drink and gambling, [viewed as] something of a womanizer and not at all practical."Ultimately, the store failed, but before that, at the age of twenty-three, he fell in love with, and married, on 2 June 1856, seventeen year old, Sabrina Wood, who, "in spite of his many faults ... stuck to him loyally and became the only real anchor in his life." Over the next few years, three children were born: Effie Ernestine (1857), Robert Dunbar (1859), and Katie (1862). Wunderlust, however, was strong within Robert Harkness, and in "the spring of 1862 he jumped at the chance to leave his young family, abandon his responsibilities as eldest son and leave his brother Adam to settle his failing business affairs", and joined an expedition of young adventurers, (the Overlanders) heading west in search of gold. Over the next four years, he experienced hardship and drudgery -- punctuated by moments of responsibility and authority, such as the time he was made Captain of the Overlander raft, and which he negotiated safely down the treacherous Fraser River -- in towns in Western Canada, such as Fort Edmonton, Quesnel, Richfield, Williams Lake, the Cariboo, and New Westminster. Having had no luck whatsoever in the goldfields, he finally returned home, in the autumn of 1865, to his wife and family. Another son (Frederic Bruce), was born 25 September 1866, but Robert was still restless, and after usurping his wife's teaching position, he again drifted into other employemnt. The position of Township Clerk was followed by that of Justice of the Peace, and there was also an extended trip, on his own, to Ireland. Nine months after his return from that country, another son (Jefferson Davis, 7 May 1871) was born. Robert Harkness then turned his attentions to innkeeping and for the next ten years struggled to keep a hostelry open in Inkerman, Ontario. In 1881, he moved his entire family to the shores of the Bay Quinte and Picton, Ontario, where he took over publishing and editing "The Picton Times". Sadly, two years later, on 27 October 1883, Robert Harkness' own obituary (he died 21 October 1883) appeared in his paper.

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Edward Stephen Harkness was an American philanthropist. Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the early twentieth century. His was a major benefactor to Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Paul's School, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Harkness inherited his fortune from his father, Stephen V. Harkness, whose wealth was established by an early investment in Standard Oil, and his brother, Charles W. Harkness. In 1918, he was ranked the 6th-richest person in the United States by Forbes magazine's first "Rich List", behind John D. Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, George Fisher Baker, and William Rockefeller.

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Ebby H. Hare was President of the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario.

Hare Photographs, Inc. is a photography studio.

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, beginning in the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet; he had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin.

Most of his fictional works – initially published as serials in magazines – were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England.