Emmeline Blanche Woodward Wells (1828-1921) was a women's rights advocate, the fifth president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the chief editor of the journal Women's Exponent.

Emmeline B. Wells was born on February 29, 1828, at Petersham, Massachusetts to parents David Woodward and Deiadama Hare. When she was four years old her father died, which meant she and her siblings were raised mainly by their mother. In 1842, she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a child, Wells was very well-educated and began teaching in her early teenage years. She married James Harris at age fifteen, they had one son who died shortly after his birth, but Harris deserted Wells. Wells then married Bishop Newel K. Whitney in 1849 and they had two children. When he died in 1850, Wells raised her children on her own in the Salt Lake Valley, where they had immigrated to in 1848.

In 1852, she married Daniel Wells and had three more children. She continued teaching while in Utah and she also became involved in civic affairs such as suffrage and women's rights. Wells was the chief editor of the women's rights journal Women's Exponent. She was also friends with famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and in 1899 she was invited by the International Council of Women to speak at its London meeting as a United States representative. Wells served as the general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1910 to 1921.

She died on April 25, 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Barrymore Nugent Hillard (1893-1947) was a stock broker in Los Angeles, California.

Barrymore Nugent Hillard was born on October 19, 1893, in Spokane, Washington, to parents Barry Nugent Hillard and Verona May Woods. Verona is the granddaughter of Emmeline B. Wells through Wells' daughter Melvina Caroline Whitney. In 1917, he married Hester Araminta Baker and they had three children. Around the same time, Hillard entered the draft to serve in the US Army during World Ward I. Hillard later married Catherine Mathilde Hansen on February 7, 1936.

Hillard died on January 5, 1947, in Beverly Hills, California.