Frederick H. Koch was born at Covington, Kentucky September 12, 1877. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated in 1900. In 1905 he began his professional career as instructor in English at the University of North Dakota; and held in turn the posts of assistant professor (1907), associate professor (1914), and Professor of Dramatic Literature (1917). There he founded the Sock and Buskin Society in 1901 of which Maxwell Anderson was an original member. He later founded the Dakota Playmakers in 1910.
Effie Knowles was born in Key West in 1892 and died in Miami in 1984 at the age of 92. Knowles began her practice of law in 1926. For a period of 19 years, beginning in 1934, she served as an attorney in the Department of Justice. She returned to private practice in 1953 in Miami, and served as an attorney for the Seminole Tribe of Florida for over 20 years, beginning in 1955.
