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Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790
Statesman; born in Boston, Jan. 17, 1706.
His father was from England; his mother was a daughter of Peter Folger, the Quaker poet of Nantucket.
He learned the art of printing with his brother; but they disagreeing, Benjamin left Boston when seventeen years of age, sought employment in New York, but, not succeeding, went to Philadelphia, and there found it. He soon attracted the attention of Governor Keith as a very bright lad, who, making him a promise of the government printing, induced young Franklin, at the age of eighteen, to go to England and purchase printing material.
He was deceived, and remained there eighteen months, working as a journeyman printer in London.
He returned to Philadelphia late in 1726, and in 1729 established himself there as a printer.
He started the Pennsylvania gazette, and married Deborah Read, a young woman whose husband had absconded.
For many years he published an almanac under the assumed name of Richard Saunder