Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanack

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; he that goes a -borrowing goes a –sorrowing.” This was taken from Poor Richard’s Almanack. Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1733 and 1758. It was his greatest publishing success for over 25 years. It was a household item in nearly every home during that period. Poor Richard’s Almanack had brief expressions and moral methods of information on the Almanack about the weather, tendency, and medical treatment. Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 to Abiah and Josiah. The Almanack was the second most popular book next to the Bible in acceptance among the colonial readers, yearly extending ten-thousand copies. Ben Franklin probably stopped writing the Almanack in1748, when he started doing public affairs. He resumed as the editor and author of the Almanack in 1757

scientists. .He was the world’s most popular freedom fighter, in his donation to the creation of the independent United States, which is frequently not mentioned. Benjamin shifted to New England to find religious freedom and to wed to Abiah Folger. Benjamin was the youngest of seventeen children. Benjamin was a smart boy who could read the Bible at age five. Franklin’s father viewed his future as working at the church, so he attended school when he was eight years old. He did well in all his classes except arithmetic. His father couldn’t afford to send him to college. Josiah made him drop out of school at the age of ten and work in the family business. Franklin didn’t like to work. His father forbids him from learning how to swim, go boating, and go canoeing. During 1723, the seventeen-year-old left home for good and went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is the largest town in the settlement. Benjamin Franklin’s life experiences led to the great book Poor Richard’s Almanack, which became a household