Henry Clay Trumbull was born on June 8, 1830, in Stonington, Connecticut.

He was a clergyman, author, and editor. He attended Stonington Academy and Williston Seminary. In 1851, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked for the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad as a clerk. In 1852, Trumbull joined the Congregational church and became the superintendent of a mission Sunday school, while working at the railroad. In 1858, he became the state Sunday school missionary for Connecticut. He was ordained in 1862 and became the chaplain of the 10th Connecticut Regiment, stationed in North Carolina. He was held by the Confederates for four months in 1863. After his release, he served in Virginia until his discharge in August 1865. He then became New England secretary for the American Sunday-school Union. In 1869, he became a companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 1875, he and his family moved to Philadelphia, where he became editor of the Sunday School Times, a position he held until his death in 1903. In 1884, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. Trumbull was the Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale Divinity School in 1888. He wrote thirty-three books, including “Kadesh-Barnea” (1884), about a historic site he identified in Palestine, and “The Knightly Soldier” (1865), a biography of his friend Henry Ward Camp. He was awarded honorary degrees from Yale, Lafayette College, and New York University.

In 1854, he married Alice Cogswell Gallaudet (1833–1891). He died on December 8, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Richard Truhlar was born on February 14, 1950, in Toronto, Ontario.

He is a Canadian poet, fictioneer, visual artist, text/sound/musical composer, performer, editor, and publisher. He began writing poetry and prose at the age of 11 and had his first published work in 1971. In 1975, he co-founded Phenomenon Press with fellow writer John Riddell, and together they edited and published the avant-garde periodical Kontakte. In the same year, Truhlar established the Kontakte Writers in Performance Series, which featured readings and performances by most of Canada's foremost experimental writers. It ran for ten years and featured over 100 artists, including Sheila Watson, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, and Nicole Brossard. He was an active member of the sound poetry group Owen Sound, giving 80 readings across Canada, the USA, and Europe. After the demise of Owen Sound, he joined with musician Glenn Frew to form the new wave rock band Warm Jets. He was a founding editor/publisher of Underwhich Editions, publishing books, chapbooks, broadsides, microfiche, leaflets and progressive audio recordings of sound poetry and electroacoustic music. In the field of broadcasting, Truhlar distinguished himself through the production of literary programs, e.g., two series for radio station CJRT-FM: The Art of Sound Poetry and Canadian Poetry in the 1980s. In the field of electroacoustic composition, he released five album-length audiocassettes and his work broadcast throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe. Since 1987, he has worked as the producer of the Centrediscs recording label of the Canadian Music Centre.

Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True was born on March 15, 1812, in Pownal, Cumberland County, Maine.

He was an educator. He attended North Yarmouth Academy and Bowdoin College but left after two years. He returned to the Maine Medical School, and while pursuing his medical studies, he started to teach to support himself financially. In 1835, he opened a High School at Bethel Hill and stayed until he received his M.D. in 1840. He practiced in Durham and, after about three years, he decided to pursue a teaching career. He became Principal of Bethel High School, which became Gould’s Academy. Dr. True also taught at a Normal school in western New York and a few schools in Milan and Gorham, New Hampshire. He was editor of The Bethel Courier from 1859 to 1860. He served on the school board of Bethel for several years and one year as supervisor of schools for Oxford County. He was a member of the Maine Board of Agriculture and founder of the Bethel Farmer’s Club. Dr. True was passionately fond of botany, chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and natural history and gave lessons to groups of students on minerals, geology, and botany. He contributed articles on agriculture and horticulture to the Oxford Democrat, Portland Transcript, and Lewiston Journal. He kept a small fruit and vegetable farm on Paradise Hill. In 1874, he was elected town historian. His final teaching job was at Litchfield Academy in 1883.

In 1836, he married Ruth Ann Winslow (1811–1849), and in 1849, he remarried Susanna Webber Stevens (1827–1911). He died on May 24, 1887, in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine.