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Benjamin Franklin Trueblood was born on November 25, 1847 in Salem, Ind. He was the son of Joshua and Esther (Parker) Trueblood.
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Benjamin Franklin Trueblood was born on November 25, 1847 in Salem, Ind. He was the son of Joshua and Esther (Parker) Trueblood.
He graduated from Earlham College in 1869.
He began his educational work as professor of classics at Penn College, Iowa.
From 1874 to 1890 he served as president of Wilmington College, Ohio, and of Penn College.
In 1890 he broadened his educational activity by becoming a professional worker for international peace. A year abroad as agent for the Christian Arbitration and Peace Society provided an opportunity for studying European conditions and for becoming acquainted with leaders in the peace movement.
From that time until his death he was important in its councils, both in England and on the Continent, and the more influential because of his mastery of several modern languages.
From 1892 until 1915 he served as secretary of the American Peace Society and as editor of its periodical, the Advocate of Peace. The fortunes of the peace movement in the United States were at a low ebb, and much of the organizing work of his predecessors, William Ladd and Elihu Burritt, had to be done over again.
The first western man to assume the leadership of organized pacifism in the United States, he made the movement a truly national one. As a result of his tireless activity in organizing branch peace societies, of writing not only for peace periodicals but for other magazines, and of lecturing on innumerable occasions, he played a responsible part in the rapid expansion of the peace movement.
A repeated visitor at the State Department and at the White House, he was treated at the national capital with greater respect than most pacifists. His influence was extended by his active participation in the Lake Mohonk arbitration conferences, the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law.
As editor of the Advocate of Peace he set a new standard for pacifist journalism. Without sacrificing the moral, ethical, and religious elements that had given so much impetus to pacifism, he interpreted the peace movement and the forces promoting war with realism as well as vision. His analyses of contemporary events were characterized by shrewdness, insight, and literary merit.
Among his numerous publications perhaps the most important were The Federation of the World (1899) and The Development of the Peace Idca and Other Essays (1932), with an introduction by Edwin D. Mead.
He died in 1916.
Benjamin Franklin Trueblood was an American pacifist who served the American Peace Society for 23 years. He gave to the peace movement an historical sense, a more substantial ground for its optimism. and a sense of realism that did much to mitigate the sentimentalism of many of its friends. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913.
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He was adhered throughout his life to the Quaker principles of his parents.
Himself an uncompromising foe of all wars, militarism, and violence, he believed it was necessary to enlist the support of every shade of opinion if pacifism and internationalism were to be translated into actualities. An intelligent advocate of arbitration and the limitation of armaments, he believed that, as a result of the solidarity of humanity and the principle of progress that governed history, the groping steps and strivings toward world organization must inevitably, and in the relatively immediate future, lead to a true world federation.
In spite of the catholic character of his philosophy and program of peace, he only partly understood the relationships between industrial and financial capitalism and war; and his appreciation of the importance of socialism and the labor movement for eliminating war did not lead him to make an effective alliance with those forces.
He was one of the earliest members of the American Society of International Law.
His thorough scholarship, his virility, and his high moral principles won the respect of his colleagues and students; his faculty for using homely and terse words, his humane and charming strain of humor, and his rare combination of modesty and heartiness won their love and devotion.
On July 17, 1872, he married Sarah H. Terrell of New Vienna, Ohio.
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