Eugene Edward “Gene” Hertzog was born in Oakpark, Illinois in 1932 and spent his childhood in Upper Derby, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen, Hertzog contracted polio and was unable to completed high school. After recovering from the disease, Hertzog obtained his GED and joined the United States Army in 1949. For nine years, he served as a military photographer stationed in Japan and finally in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he met his first wife, Magdalene Tefoya. The couple married in November 1957 and had one son, Wayne Alan.

Sam Gay was the Sheriff of Clark County, Nevada between 1911 and 1931. He was born March 1, 1860 in Prince County, Canada and grew up in Massachusetts. Gay moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1905 to work as a bouncer in the Arizona Club. He was chosen by the first Sheriff of Clark County, Charles C. Corkhill, to be his deputy in 1909, and he later became Sheriff himself. He died August 24, 1932 in Las Vegas.

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Benjamin Harrison was an American lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born on August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Ohio. At the beginning of the American Civil War, Harrison was a practicing lawyer and accepted a commission into the Union Army. After the Civil War, Harrison unsuccessfully ran for senator and later ran for President of the United States, which he won in 1888. Benjamin Harrison passed away on March 13, 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana at the age of 67.

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