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Benjamin Franklin
Who Was Benjamin Franklin?
Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father and a polymath, inventor, forskare, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he negotiated the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War.
His scientific pursuits included investigations into electricity, mathematics and mapmaking. A writer known for his wit and wisdom, Franklin also published Poor Richard’s Almanack, invented bifocal glasses and organized the first successful American lending library.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Benjamin Franklin
BORN: January 17,
DIED: April 17,
BIRTHPLACE: Boston, Massachusetts
SPOUSE: Deborah Read ()
CHILDREN: William, Francis, Sarah
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Capricorn
Early Life
Franklin was born on January 17, , in Boston, in what was then known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Franklin’s father, English-born soap and candlemaker Josiah Franklin, had sju ch
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A Quick Biography of
Benjamin Franklin
Francis Folger Franklin, Ben's son.
(Posthumous painting. Artist and date unknown)
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.
Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.
Apprentice Printer
When Benjamin was 15 his brother started The New England Courant the first "newspaper" in Boston. Though there were two papers in the city before James's Courant, they only reprinted news from abroad. James's paper carried a
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Ardent and Dutiful
Charming, naturally sociable, and witty, Franklin drew people to him wherever he lived. He was dutiful and affectionate toward his family, but it was to close friends that he most often expressed his ardent devotion. During the course of his long life, he wrote thousands of letters to family and friends, maintaining personal ties both in America and across the Atlantic.Franklin was one of seventeen children in a family of Boston tradesmen. When Benjamin was 12, he was apprenticed to his older brother James, a printer. Rebelling against his brother’s stern treatment, he ran away, but maintained close ties with his family, writing frequently with news of his life.
Franklin saw his future wife Deborah Reed on his very first day in Philadelphia. When they married (common law) in , the household already included Franklin’s young son, William, whom Deborah raised. Later, their family grew with the birth of their son Francis Folger (who died at four) and dau