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William Young, lawyer, politician, judge, and philanthropist, was born at Falkirk, Scotland on 8 September 1799, the son of John and Agnes (Renny) Young. He was educated at the University of Glasgow. Young emigrated with his family to Nova Scotia in April 1814 and worked at his father's business, John Young and Company, as an agent in Halifax and later New York. In 1815 he entered into an auction and commission business in Halifax with James Cogswell. From 1820 to 1823 Young apprenticed in the law firm of Charles Rufus and Samuel Prescott Fairbanks; he began his own practice in Halifax when he was admitted as a barrister in 1826. From 1834 to the 1850s he maintained a legal partnership and insurance business with his brother George. In 1832 he was elected MLA for Cape Breton County (later Inverness) and also represented Cumberland County, 1859-1860. Young also served as speaker of the House of Assembly, 1842-1854; member of the Executive Council, 1842-1843; premier and attorney general 1854-1857; and premier and president of the council, 1860. He was appointed chief justice from 1860 until his retirement in 1881. Young was also a great benefactor to the City of Halifax and Dalhousie University. He received a Knight Bachelor in 1869 and honourary degrees from Queen's and Dalhousie. He died at Halifax on 8 May 1887. His wife was Anne Tobin, daughter of Hon. Michael and Margaret (Lanigan) Tobin, whom he married on 10 August 1830; they had no children.

George E. Zinck was employed as an accredited property appraiser for the federal Dept. of Munitions and Supply, Office of the Wartime Administrator Canadian Atlantic Ports, Explosion Damage Claims division, at Halifax, N.S.

Cecil Edward Churchward Zink was born on 28 December 1880, the son of David (1846-1934) and Jane Arabella (Hiltz) (1843-1933) Zink. He married Margaret Morea Mills on 16 June 1908, and they had two sons, Frank and Ralph. Zink was an undertaker with Dartmouth Undertakers on Portland Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, at the time of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. He went out to recover bodies aboard the Canadian Government steamship Montmagny in the aftermath of the disaster. In 1915 he began to work privately as an undertaker and embalmer at 217 Portland Street in Dartmouth. Zink's Funeral Service was registered as a limited company in 1941. It has since been amalgamated with the Dartmouth Crematorium Limited. Lynch died on 14 October 1967 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is buried in the Mount Hermon Cemetery in Dartmouth.

Ralph Churchward Zink was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on 7 December 1914, the son of Cecil Edward Churchward (1880-1967) and Margaret Morea (Mills) Zink. He was educated in Dartmouth and graduated from the Fredericton Business College. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery, retiring in 1945 with the rank of Major. He worked as a public accountant and bookkeeper in Newfoundland; at Amherst, Nova Scotia; and, for the last twelve years of his career, with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro, retiring in 1979. He also assisted with his father's funeral home business. He was married twice. His first wife was Mary B. Lucas; he survived her and later married Margaret P.E. Keddy. Zink had two children, Lynda and David. He died on 17 June 1981 in Windsor, Nova Scotia and is buried in Park Cemetery, Mahone Bay.