Riley Moore Moffat was born March 22, 1947, in Ogden, Utah to Lloyd Brown and Helen Moore Moffat. He married Connie Reinwand on August 1970 and they had four children. In 1972, he received his B.S. from the Church College of Hawaii (now BYU-Hawaii), his M.L.S. from the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 1973, and an M.S. in 1980 from BYU. Riley served as the library director for LDS church schools in Tonga in the mid-1980s before becoming geography and map librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University. In 1987, he became the head of reference at the Joseph F. Smith Library of BYU-Hawaii. Riley has published on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii, on the history of mapping in Hawaii, and on population histories of various countries. Riley retired from BYU-Hawaii in 2014.

Henry Phinehas Richards was born on November 30, 1831, in Richmond, Massachusetts to Phineas Howe Richards and Wealthy Dewey Richards. He married Margaret Minerva Amanda Empey and together they had eight children. During his life Richards served two missions to Hawaii for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He passed away in Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 1912.