for not knowing.  Out of curiosity I looked up Walter Booth Adams, he of the random guest-book entry.  What would have been a nearly impossible quest thirty years ago, took only the time required for my search engine and computer to respond. 

Born in 1864, he graduated in 1890 from New York University.  From 1890 to 1924  he was a professor of pharmacology and dermatology at the American University of Beirut and helped establish at least some other medical posts in Syria.  He was also a Freemason and given to writing occasional poetry about the landscape of the region.  He died in 1928 in Syria.  I also found a portrait and information about his parents, son, etc.

Of course…what I did Not find was his connection Esperanza.  Was it through medicine and New York University? He would have known George Creevey from that, possibly quite well.  Most likely.  Less likely, was it through his poetry and his experience living and working in the mid-east, two of the great loves of WWE? Or, what?