Benjamin
Pitman
was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in 1822. He was the brother of
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of the shorthand
system. In 1852 Pitman emigrated to the United States and the following
year established the Phonographic Institute in Cincinnati. In 1855
he invented an electrochemical process of relief engraving.
Pitman attended the trial of the men charged with conspiring to assassinate
Abraham Lincoln. His book, The
Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators,
was published in 1867. Benjamin Pitman, who also taught at Cincinnati
Art School, died in 1910.
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