... Boston, observing the craftsmen at work and looking for a congenial trade. One of his cousins was a cutler, and that occupation was seriously considered. Franklin's fondness for books, he decided to sign indentures with his elder brother James, who in 1717 had returned to Boston from London with a printing ... Philadelphia. He roamed Philadelphia for a while, and that's how he met his soon to be wife, Deborah Read. After looking for a while he was finally employed at Samuel Keimer's printing shop and rooming Deborah's home. After some time at that, the provincial governor, Sir William Ke...

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... his own print shop. Along with his partner, he also had a big hand in promoting the paper currency. 1730 - Married Deborah Read; began publication of Pennsylvania Gazette 5. Deborah Read had been married before but her husband left her and disappeared. Franklin-due to some mistakes-had been seeing other women before his marriage and had a boy William, though nobody ever knew whom ... his mother was. Franklin married Deborah on September 1, 1730; their marriage lasted until her death in 1774. For years Franklin was the public printer ... dispute with the proprietors of the colony 1766-75...

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... Boston, observing the craftsmen at work and looking for a congenial trade. One of his cousins was a cutler, and that occupation was seriously considered. Franklin's fondness for books, he decided to sign indentures with his elder brother James, who in 1717 had returned to Boston from London with a printing ... Philadelphia. He roamed Philadelphia for a while, and that's how he met his soon to be wife, Deborah Read. After looking for a while he was finally employed at Samuel Keimer's printing shop and rooming Deborah's home. After some time at that, the provincial governor, Sir William Ke...

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... later became enemies with. Shortly after returning to America in 1726, Franklin formed a debating club called the Junto. Two years later, he took over The Pennsylvania Gazette from Samuel Keimer and turned it into a successful publication with tools from London. Now, in 1730, Benjamin Franklin got married to his old sweetheart, Deborah Read, with whom he had two children. The first, William ... Franklin who was born approximately one year later after his wedding. Throughout the 1730s, Benjamin Franklin held some small positions doing printing work for the government. In that time, he be...

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... 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 officia...

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... 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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... 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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... for two years. At ten years old, Ben began to help out at his fathers shop. Benjamin Franklin believed however, that "the doors of wisdom are never shut". He read every book he could get his hands on and taught himself algebra, geometry, navigation, grammar, logic, ... Franklin ran away to Philadelphia at seventeen. Once in Philadelphia, he worked for many different partners. At 22, he became part owner of a print shop and only two years later he became sole owner. He wrote much of the material for his newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette. In 1730, he married Deborah Read ... dead mail of...

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