Term Papers on Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin

     Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17, 1706.  He was the
youngest son in a family of seventeen.  His father was a salesman of candles and soap.
Because the Franklin family was poor, Ben wasn’t able to get much education.  When he was
ten years old, his father took him out of school and taught him the soap and candle business.
However, Benjamin disliked the trade.  Two years later, Ben was apprenticed to his brother who
was a printer and publisher of The New England Courant.  He became a very good printer.
While he was apprenticed, he had frequent arguments with his brother.  In 1723 he left his
brother and went to New York City and then to Philadelphia.
     When he got to Philadelphia, he got a job in the print shop of Samuel Keimer.  Soon the
governor of Pennsylvania, who was Sir William Keith, took an interest in young Benjamin.  He
promised to back Franklin in his own printing business and sent Ben to England to get a printing
press.  The governor didn’t keep his promise and Franklin was stranded in England.  Franklin
spent a year and a half in England and worked in a few different printing houses.  He returned
to Philadelphia and soon was back in the printing business.
     In 1728, Franklin and a partner, Hugh Meredith, opened their own print shop.  They
printed a newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette.
     He married Deborah Read in 1730.  They had three children, two boys and one girt.
One of Franklin’s sons later became governor of New Jersey.
     He worked as a printer from 1730-1748 and was successful.  He became the official
printer of Pennsylvania, then New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.  During this time, he
published “Poor Richard’s Almanack”.  It was a very popular book that had the weather
forecasts for the year as well as jokes and proverbs.  He published it under the name of Richard
Saunders.
     Franklin continued to study things such as science and foreign languages.  He
organized a debate club that became known as the American Philosophical Society.  As a
result of this club, Franklin started the first public library.
     Ben Franklin was interested in the welfare of the citizens of the city of Philadelphia.  He
organized the first volunteer Fire Department.  He invented a fire truck which was actually a
cart with two hoses, one that went into the water and the other hose was held by a few people
at the nozzle.  Two to four people pumped the engine.  He organized the first hospital in
America.

In 1753 Franklin was made deputy postmaster general for all the colonies.  He made the postal
service make money and operate effectively.
     Ben Franklin was an inventor.  One of the most famous invention that he made was the
Franklin stove.  At that time, homes were drafty due to fireplaces that were not efficient.  The
stove that Franklin invented had a grate that stuck out into the room to be heated and
radiated warmth in more directions.  Franklin wanted his stove to be affordable by all people
to be able to heat their homes.
     Even though Franklin was well ...

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