from "Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762 - 1907" prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union #33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of its institution printed in 1907 "The Journeymen" (part 184) pp. LXXXIV - LXXXVI. "WILLIAM E. TOURTELLOT - Born Woonsocket July 26, 1847. He learned printing in the office of the Woonsocket Patriot, beginning in 1863; initiated into Providence Union Oct. 10, 1868; worked on the Evening Press and Journal until 1885, when he went to New Bedford, where he is at present employed in the office of the Evening Standard. JOHN F. TRACY - Applied for admission to Hartford (Conn.) Union May, 1902; he was born in 1873; had worked at printing in Philadelphia, Providence and Boston. PATRICK J. TRIGGS - Died Providence May 13, 1887, aged 29 years; he learned printing at Hammond, Angell & Co.'s and worked as a journeyman in that office. SAMUEL T. B. TRIMMER - Died New York city in 1893. He was initiated into Providence Union June 9, 1873; worked on the Journal and Morning Star. He was a native of New Jersey. BEN C. TRUMAN (Major) - Born of an old Colonial family in Providence, R. I., Oct. 25, 1835. He graduated from the high school and was further educated at the Shaker village of East Canterbury, N. H., until, at the age of 17, he was appointed principal of the district school in that town. In 1853 he returned to Providence, learned to set type in the Mirror office, where he worked until November, 1854, when he went to Boston and clerked and wrote stories for weekly papers. In 1855 he went to New York and set type and read proof for the New York Times for five years. He represented New York Union as delegate in the national convention of 1858. In 1860 he went to Philadelphia as correspondent for the New York Clipper, and as a writer on the Sunday Mercury and Forney's Press. He also wrote for the theatres and other playhouses of Philadelphia, and composed a number of war songs and war farces in 1861. His writings now attracted the attention of Col. John W. Forney, who made him a war correspondent of his paper. In March, 1862, when Andrew Johnson was made Military Governor of Tennessee, he selected Truman as one of his staff officers and confidential secretary, with rank of captain. Truman also acted as correspondent of the Philadelphia Press and New York Times until the close of the war. He was elected the first major of the first loyal white regiment raised in middle Tennessee, and was assistant provost marshal of Nashville for a long time. And although he remained with Johnson until the end of the war, he often went into the field and served on the staff of Gen. James S. Negley at the battle of Stone River, on Gen. John H. King's staff in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, and at Missionary Ridge, and with Gen. Kenner Garrard at the battles of Spanish Fort, Mobile and Blakeley. Shortly after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, President Johnson appointed Truman his confidential secretary, which position he held for 18 months, during which period he spent eight months in the Southern States as a special commissioner to aid in Johnson's scheme of reconstruction, and two other months in Florida and South Carolina rectifying the flagrant abuses of the direct tax commissioners for those two States. He was subsequently appointed special agent of the Treasury Department and sent to Europe. Upon his return the President appointed Truman major and paymaster in the regular army. Truman had signified a wish for some good place that would take him to the Pacific coast, and a special agency of the Postoffice Department was created for him that gave him jurisdiction from Alaska to Mexico. This position he held for about three years, during which time he visited China, Japan, Alaska, Mexico and the Sandwich Islands. At the expiration of his term of office he married in December, 1869, Miss Augusta Mallard of Los Angeles, and went to Washington as correspondent of the New York Times and San Francisco Bulletin. In July, 1870, he returned and was appointed Census Marshal of San Diego county, and became editor and part proprietor of the San Diego Bulletin. In February, 1872, he moved to Los Angeles and became editor of the Los Angeles Express. In July, 1873, he purchased the Daily and Weekly Star of Los Angeles, and made it a great paper for that day, and sold it to his printers in October, 1877, and was again appointed special agent of the Postoffice Department for the Pacific coast. This office he held during the year 1878, and in 1879 he accepted the position of chief of the literary bureau of the Southern Pacific Co., which he held for eleven years, residing in San Francisco. In 1890 he went to Chicago and took charge of a Southern California exhibit for the Santa Fe Railroad Co., where he remained for two years, when he was appointed, in 1892, assistant chief of floriculture of the World's Fair at Chicago, after which he returned to Los Angeles and was for four years editor of the Graphic. In 1899 he was appointed a commissioner from California to the Paris Exposition of 1900, and afterward visited the Holy Land, Egypt, Algiers and Morocco as correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Graphic. Maj. Truman is highly spoken of in Appleton's Biography and a list of his best books is given. He wrote 'Campaigning in Tennessee' in 1863; 'The South After the War' in 1866; 'Semi-Tropical California' in 1874; 'Occidental Sketches' in 1881; 'Monterey' in 1882; 'Tourists' Guide to the Summer and Winter Resorts in California' in 1883; 'Homes and Happiness in California' and the 'Field of Honor' in 1884; 'From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate' in 1886; 'Pictorial History of the World's Fair' in 1893, and 'See How It Sparkles' in 1896. He wrote a five-act play for the Webb Sisters called 'Life,' and he dramatized 'Enoch Arden' for Edwin Adams. He was for a while night editor of the Philadelphia Press and managing editor of the Washington Chronicle. He established the San Francisco Wave and owned and edited it for several years. Our old Providence printer is at present editor of the Graphic in Los Angeles, where he lives under his own vine and fig tree, and is well remembered by many a Providence printer who knew him in the 50's as 'Shaker,' which nickname he carried with him to Boston and New York and which remained with him so long as he remained at the case." continued in part 185.