The book includes an introduction by Professor William F. Ganong of Smith College, who refers to the book as the first work in the field, and asserts that (as of 1899) the young people of the Maliseet "care nothing" for their language and culture, and that the conditions making the book possible were rapidly slipping away with the passing of the (then-) present generation, although this prediction has fortunately not been borne out.
The couple had two children, William Francis Ganong, Jr., a renowned physiologist, and Ann Ganong Seidler, professor of speech theory (now retired) and children's author.
He was a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served with the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War in which he was part of a medical team that established a MASH unit, the Hemorrhagic Fever Center.
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