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Benjamin Cummings Truman was born on October 25, 1835 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the eldest son of Henry Hammond Truman and his first wife, Susan (Cummings), and a descendant of Joseph Truman who settled in New London (Connecticut) about 1666.
He attended public school there and a Shaker school in Canterbury, N. H. , and at seventeen took charge for a year of a district school in Merrimack County, N. H.
Returning to Providence, he learned typesetting, and from 1855 until late in 1859 was a compositor and proofreader on the New York Times. In the latter year he entered the employ of John W. Forney of Philadelphia, publisher of the Press, and in 1861 went to Washington to work on Forney's Sunday Morning Chronicle.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he was sent to the front as a correspondent and in March 1862, declining a commission in a regiment of volunteers, became an aide on the staff of Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee. Nominally he so remained until near the end of the war, though his talent for doing many things at the same time enabled him to render distinguished service as a correspondent and to serve from time to time on the staffs of Generals J. S. Negley, John H. King, and Kenner Garrard.
In the late summer of 1865 Truman was sent by President Johnson as a confidential agent to investigate opinion and conditions in the far South, and from the first of September 1865 to the middle of March 1866 he traveled in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, sending frequent illuminating letters to the New York Times and making observations which he submitted to the President in the form of a report, dated Aprril 9, 1866.
He testified before the congressional Committee on Reconstruction on April 5 and shortly thereafter was sent as a special treasury agent to South Carolina and Florida. Declining appointment as paymaster with the rank of major in the Regular Army, he served from December 1866 until late in 1869 as special agent of the Post Office Department on the Pacific Coast, in this capacity visiting China, Japan, and Hawaii.
Afterward he went to Washington as a correspondent of the New York Times and the San Francisco Bulletin.
He was again in California in 1870, became interested in the San Diego Bulletin, and in February 1872 assumed the editorship of the Evening Express of Los Angeles. In the following year he bought the Los Angeles Star, but four years later sold it and again became a special agent of the Post Office Department.
For eleven years (1879 - 90) he was chief of the literary bureau of the Southern Pacific Railway; for the next two years the manager of a Southern California exhibit in Chicago; and subsequently for a time assistant chief of floriculture at the World's Columbian Exposition there.
Returning to Los Angeles, he edited for some years the weekly Western Graphic. In 1900 he was one of the California commissioners to the Paris exposition and toured the Near East as a correspondent.
Besides his newspaper articles and sketches, Truman produced a number of books and pamphlets, including: Life, Adventures, and Capture of Tiburcio Vasquez, the Great California Bandit and Murderer (1874); Semi-Tropical California (1874); Occidental Sketches (1881); The Field of Honor (London, 1883; New York, 1884), a history of dueling; and a History of the World's Fair (copr. 1893). He also produced two plays, one of them a dramatization of Tennyson's Enoch Arden.
He died on July 18, 1916 in Los Angeles.
Benjamin Cummings Truman was a distinguished war correspondent during the American Civil War, and an authority on duels. He has been called one of the most brilliant and successful of the Civil War correspondents, since by ingenuity or luck he was often enabled to get important news to the press ahead of his rivals, and in at least one notable instance ahead of the War Department. His letters to the Times and his report and testimony on conditions in the South during the early period of Reconstruction are among the valuable sources of information covering that field.
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Truman was jovial and expansive in manner, had amazing energy, and wrote voluminously.
On December 8, 1869, at Los Angeles, he married Augusta Mallard. They had two children.
