Who was Benjamin Franklin? Well he helped write the Declaration of Independence and also negotiated the Treaty of Paris of 1783. His scientific pursuit included electricity, mathematics, and mapmaking. Published Poor Richard’s Almanac invented bifocal glasses and organized the first successful American lending library. Now sit back and let me tell you who he is. Rephrase
Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. Ben’s father was a soap and candle maker his name was Josiah Franklin. He had seven children with his first wife Anne Child and ten with his second Abaih Folger. Ben was the fifteenth and the youngest son. He learned to read at an early age and had success in Latin school. But he stopped going to school at age 10 and rather worked at his father candle and soap shop instead. His father apprenticed him at 12 to his brother James print shop. Even though he was abused by his brother, he learned a great amount of information about newspaper publishing. James refused to
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At first he went to New York, but then went to Philadelphia where he lived the rest of his life. In Philadelphia he worked at another print shop at lived with John Read. The Governor William Keith encouraged him to get his own print shop. He left for London in 1724 for all his supplies. The governor had not sent the letter like he had said. He had crafted his own flippers for swimming and swam the Thames River. In 1968 he was inducted into the International hall of fame. In 1725 he had published his first pamphlet “A Dissertation upon Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. What it had said was the humans lack of free will and not morally responsible for his actions. Later he had burned and only saved one copy of the pamphlet. He returned to Philadelphia in 1726 to find that Deborah Read had married. Her husband had left her though after only a few months after the