Benjamin Franknlin

Benjamin Franknlin

The Life of Benjamin Franklin


Benjamin Franklin was one of the greatest statesmen in the United States. He was

an American Author, printer, scientists, and workers,   Whose contributes to the cause of

the American Revolution.


Benjamin’s life story begins on January 17, 1706, in   Boston, the day he was born.
His father, Josiah was a poor candle and soap maker.   Benjamin’s mother Abia was a
baker and worked at a cake house in Boston.   Together Josia and Abia had 17 children,
and Benjamin was the 15th and the youngest boy.   As a young boy Benjamin had a talent
in swimming, in fact one of his first inventions was the hand paddles to make him go faster
in the water. Ben only went to school for one year, but he learned a lot.   Ben enjoyed
reading and studying science and Math.   By the ahe of 13 he went to work for his oldest
brother James.   James hired his brother as an apprentice printer. In Bens sparetime he
worked on his studies in Math and Science, and he loved to read.   Since nobody ever
wanted to be a printer all printers had to sign a contract saying that they would have to
work for a certain amount of time until they were wasters.

In the year 1720   his brother established the New England Courant.   Benjamin was
unhappy about the apprentice master thing, so at the age of 15 Ben worked for is
delivering newspapers by day and at night he wrote articles for the newspaper. In his
articles he wrote about political issues and how the government was bad.   These articles
went on for about a year and he never signed his name.   In the last article he wrote is name
as the header and his brother was outraged at his brothers actions in the paper so he
revoked Ben’s contract.

After Ben left the paper with his brother, Benjamin left Boston and moved to
Philadelphia, in October 1723.   In Philadelphia Ben worked as a trader and met Sir
William Keith. Sir William Keith was the provincial governor of   Pennsylvania. He asked
Ben to...