... Boston, Massachusetts, Franklin had an aspiring personality by the time he was 17 years old, when he ran away from his home to Philadelphia. He eventually opened his own printing office in Philadelphia, and became the owner and publisher of the Philadelphia Gazette. He married Deborah Read Rogers in 1730. ... A few years later, from 1732 to 1758, Franklin published Poor Richard: An Almanack annually. He used this to express his sense of humor. He was a ... news and opinions out to the people. He also printed cartoons, so that uneducated people could still see his point. By 1736, Ben Fran...

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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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