... to him did not happen. So once again, young Franklin found himself once again without means in a strange city. These kinds of happenens did not hold Benjamin down for one minute. In 1730 he married Deborah Read, a Philadelphia woman whom he had known before his ... trip to England. Benjamin also founded what was probably the first public library in America, charted in 1742 as the Philadelphia Library. He published Poor Richard's Almanack in 1732, under the pen name Richard Saunders. He gained a wide audience, and exerted a perasive influence upon the American character. Benjamin Franklin...

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... with him. 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 ... 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 .....

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