He served as editor of the Society's journal, The Advocate of Peace which contained numerous articles by Trueblood.

He translated Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch and authored numerous pamphlets and books, including Federation of the World.

[2] Benjamin Franklin Trueblood was born in Salem, Indiana on November 25, 1847, to Esther Parker and Joshua A.

[6] Trueblood was a principal at the Raisin Valley Seminary in Michigan in 1869 and within the same year he became the minister of the Blue River Friends Meeting House.

[4] Trueblood was present at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference, and arrived there on May 21, 1899 – three days after its opening, according to the memoirs of Bertha von Suttner.

He was one of the earliest members of the American Society of International Law, being elected to the executive council of ASIL in 1905.

[7] He translated Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch and authored numerous books and pamphlets.