Ben as he told me to call him came into my office like an ordinary American. You could have never guessed that he was the Benjamin Franklin who had such a great impact on American History.

We got right down to the point and I asked him what he was like as a boy? He responded with “ Life growing up was tough, I was the 15 of 17 children in the household but we would help around the house so things got done easily. My dad was a candle maker do the money wasn’t really coming in very fast I had to start working very young. “How did you learn to read and write?” My father had all these religious books at home and I kinda taught myself to read. I don’t know how but I did. “ Tell me more about your education?” Well my father decided for me that I would have a career in the church. I didn’t mind but that took a lot of schooling 6 years of Latin school and then you would have to go on to Harvard. I attended Latin school and after a year I went to the top of the class and was told I would skip

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