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Benjamin Franklin: A Brief Biography

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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. Josiah originally wanted Benjamin to work for the church, but he couldn’t afford all the years of schooling that he would need to do so. Benjamin was then given schooling up until age 10 and then became an apprentice to his brother, James Franklin, a printer. James started a paper when Benjamin was 15. Benjamin wanted to write articles for the paper, but he knew that his brother wouldn’t let him. So forth, he started writing articles under the alias Silence Dogood, a woman, and he began slipping them underneath the print shop door to be published. The articles were great, and a lot of the readers wanted to know who the real writer
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