Quiz; who are these people –

At Leopold, Perry County, Indiana, young Thomas Webb was spending a cozy evening with a widow and her two daughters, one of whom was a young lady of eighteen, when a young physician by the name of Christian came into the house, and on seeing the apparently pleasant relations existing between the inmates and the visitor, became excited and retired but in a short time returned and without any warning rushed furiously upon Webb with a bowie knife and inflicted seven stabs upon him in the region of the heart Fortunately, a large plug of tobacco and a folded newspaper in the inside pocket of his coat protected him from the force of the blows. Webb is in a very critical situation. The doctor fled He is a man of education and a Creole of Louisiana
Lowell Daily Citizen and News 2/25/1857