François-Xavier Méthot
François- Xavier Méthot( November 10, 1796 – November 6, 1853) was a Quebec businessman and political figure.
He was born François- Xavier Méthotte in Pointe- aux- Trembles, Lower Canada in 1796 and settled in the Lower Town of Quebec City, entering the wholesale and retail hardware business.
He also set up factories to manufacture putty, cut nails and millstones.
Méthot was named a justice of the peace, served on the city council and was a captain in the local militia.
He also served as secretary for the Saint- Jean- Baptiste Society at Quebec City.
Méthot was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Quebec City as a Reformer in an 1848 by-election.
He also served as a director of the Quebec Provident and Savings Bank and was an office of Trinity House of Quebec.
He died at Quebec City in 1853.
His brother Antoine- Prosper Méthot also served in the legislative assembly and his brother Louis was a member of the Lower Canada assembly.
His son François- Xavier was a member of the Quebec legislative assembly and the Canadian House of Commons.
Ellen Bergman
Ellen Bergman (5 January 1842- 5 December 1921) was a Swedish musician, vocal educator and women's rights activist.
She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Antoine-Prosper Méthot
Antoine-Prosper Méthot (1804 – July 7, 1871) was a Quebec notary and political figure.
He was born Antoine-Prosper Méthotte at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Lower Canada in 1804.
Méthot studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, apprenticed as a notary, received his commission in 1829 and set up practice at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets.
He also served as postmaster there.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Nicolet in 1844.
Méthot died at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1871.
His brother François-Xavier was also a member of the legislative assembly and his brother Louis was a member of the Lower Canada assembly.
Hélène Grenier
Hélène Grenier was a Canadian librarian born in 1900 who died in 1992.
Jane E. Norton
Jane Ellen Norton( born Jane Ellen Bergman, October 12, 1954) was the 46th Lieutenant Governor of the State of Colorado and an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 election.
She lost the nomination to current Weld County District Attorney and Tea Party favorite Ken Buck.
Norton became the first executive director for the Denver Police Foundation on February 1, 2007, an organization created to enhance public safety and law enforcement in the Denver community.
In 2013, Norton filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado alleging tax payer money being used to provide abortions.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled against Norton in January 2018.
Louis Méthot
Louis Méthot (1793 – October 16, 1859) was a Quebec businessman and political figure.
He was born Louis Méthotte at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Lower Canada in 1793.
Méthot was a merchant at Sainte-Croix.
He served in the local militia during the War of 1812, becoming lieutenant.
He was named justice of the peace.
Méthot also served as commissioner for the construction of a bridge over the Chaudière River and a road in the region of Sainte-Croix.
In 1830, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Lotbinière, supporting the parti patriote, and was reelected in 1834.
Méthot voted in support of the Ninety-Two Resolutions.
In 1848, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada; he was removed for non-attendance in 1857.
He died at Sainte-Croix in 1859.
His brothers François-Xavier and Antoine-Prosper were members of the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada.
Étienne Rabaud
Étienne Antoine Prosper Jules Rabaud( 12 September 1868 in Saint- Affrique – 3 September 1956 in Villemade) was a French zoologist, known for his studies of animal behavior.
From 1894 he served as an assistant in the laboratory of teratology at the École des Hautes- Études, and in 1898 he obtained doctorates in both medicine and sciences.
In 1907 he became a maître de conférences at the faculty of sciences in Paris, where he was later named an assistant professor( 1920), professor without chair( 1921) and a professor of experimental biology( 1923).
From 1910 to 1919 he served as director of the laboratory at Wimereux.
In 1904 he was named secretary of the Société d' Anthropologie de Paris.
Later on in his career, he was appointed president of the Société entomologique de France( 1915) and the Société zoologique de France( 1921).
In 1937 he became an officer of the Légion d'honneur.
Rabaud was a supporter of Lamarckian evolution.
Helen Hyslop
Helen Hyslop, also Nelly or Ellen Hyslop was a' noted local beauty' in Moffat and a strong local tradition maintains that Robert Burns was for some time a great admirer of her and that she had an affair with Robert Burns.
A daughter, also Helen, is said to have been born as a result of this liaison.
Parish records show that a Helen Hyslop, the mother of Burns's possible daughter, was born in the area in 1766, her parents being John Hyslop and Janet Howatson of Langholm.
François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot
François- Xavier- Ovide Méthot( September 19, 1843 – October 19, 1908) was a Quebec farmer and political figure.
He represented Nicolet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1871 to 1876 and in the House of Commons of Canada as an Independent Conservative member from 1877 to 1884.
He was born in Quebec City in 1843, the son of François- Xavier Méthot, and studied at the Séminaire de Québec.
He married his cousin Clara, the daughter of Antoine- Prosper Méthot, in 1864.
Méthot was a farmer at Saint- Pierre- les- Becquets and served as mayor there from 1868 to 1872.
In 1871, he was elected to the legislative assembly of the province in Nicolet as a Conservative; he was reelected in 1875 but his election was declared invalid by the Quebec Superior Court in June 1876.
He did not run again in the subsequent by-election but was elected to the federal parliament in an 1877 by-election after the then- sitting member was named to the Legislative Council of Quebec.
Méthot represented Nicolet until 1884, when he was named to the Legislative Council of Quebec in De La Vallière district.
He remarried in 1885; his second wife was Marie- Clara- Louise- Ernestine Paradis.
He died in office at Saint- Pierre- les- Becquets in 1908.
Shirley E. Schwartz
Shirley Ellen Schwartz or Ellen Shirley Schwartz( Aug. 26, 1935 – May 8, 2016) was a chemist and research scientist at General Motors, specializing in the study and development of industrial lubricants and automobile oil change indicator systems.
She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1996 for her accomplishments in the field of chemistry.

Question: Who died first, Antoine-Prosper Méthot or Ellen Bergman?