Benjamin  FRANKLIN

1706 Birth

Name: Benjamin Frankling
Gender: Male
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Birth Date: 06 Jan 1706
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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Father's Name: Josiah
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Mother's Name: Abiah
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01922-9
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film number: 592866
Reference ID: 113-114

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Biography
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an eminent American statesman and scientist, was born of poor parentage, January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts, He was apprenticed to his brother James to learn the printer's trade to prevent his running away and going to sea, and also because of the numerous family his parents had to support (there being seventeen children, Benjamin being the fifteenth). He was a great reader, and soon developed a taste for writing, and prepared a number of articles and had them published in the paper without his brother's knowledge, and when the authorship became known it resulted in difficulty for the young apprentice although his articles had been received with favor by the public. James was afterwards thrown into prison for political reasons, and young Benjamin conducted the paper alone during the time. In 1823, however, he determined to endure his bonds no longer, and ran away, going to Philadelphia, where he arrived with only three pence as his store of wealth. With...Read MORE...


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1706 - Benjamin Franklin born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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January 17, 1706

1730 Marriage / Partner
Benjamin FRANKLIN and Deborah READ 1 September 1730, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

He was 24 years old.

1731 Birth of Child
William FRANKLIN was born 1 September 1731, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Benjamin was 25 years old.

1731 - November 8 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
In 1731, Benjamin Franklin, already recognized as a prolific inventor, writer, and community leader in Philadelphia, established what would become the first public lending library in the American colonies. This milestone marked a significant moment in American intellectual history, as it democratized access to knowledge at a time when books were rare and expensive luxuries. Franklin, then just 25 years old, organized a subscription library system where members pooled resources to purchase books and share them amongst themselves. This innovative approach not only made books more accessible but also fostered a culture of learning and inquiry among the colonists.

Franklin's library was housed in a room within the Academy of Philadelphia (which later evolved into the University of Pennsylvania). It quickly became a hub for intellectual exchange and debate, attracting scholars, politicians, and ordinary citizens eager to expand their understanding of the world. Franklin's vision for the ...Read MORE...


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November 8, 1731

1732 Birth of Child
Francis Folger FRANKLIN was born 20 October 1732 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Benjamin was 26 years old.

1732 - December 19 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

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December 19, 1732

1736 - The first volunteer fire department, the Union Fire Company, was founded in Philadelphia in 1736 by Benjamin Franklin.

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1736 Death of Child
Francis Folger FRANKLIN died 21 November 1736 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Benjamin was 30 years old.

1743 Birth of Child
Sarah "Sally" FRANKLIN was born 11 September 1743 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Benjamin was 37 years old.

1751 - Founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania Hospital was the first hospital in the United States.

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May 11, 1751

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)
'Those of our Readers in this and the neighboring Provinces, who may have had an Opportunity of observing, during the present Summer, and of the Effects of Lightning on Houses, Ships, Trees, &c. are requested to take particular Notice of its Course, and Deviation from a strait Line in the Walls or other Matter affected by it, its different Operations or Effects on Wood, Stone, Bricks, Glass, Metals, Animal Bodies, &c. and every other Circumstance that may tend to discover the Nature, and compleat the History of that terrible Meteor. Such Observations being put in Writing, and communicated to Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, will be very thankfully accepted and acknowledged.'

The Philadelphia Gazette, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1753

'...In short, to use the handsome language of president Adams, 'nothing, perhaps, that ever occurred on earth, could have better tended to confer universal celebrity on man than did these lightning rods of doctor Franklin's. The idea was...Read MORE...


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1762 Marriage of Child
William FRANKLIN married 4 September 1762, London, England to Elizabeth DOWNES

1767 Marriage of Child
Sarah "Sally" FRANKLIN married 3 October 1767, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA to Richard BACHE

1774 Death of Spouse/Partner
Deborah READ died 19 December 1774 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)
'While living in Paris, Franklin hated having to change constantly from reading glasses to distance glasses. He directed an optician to cut two pairs of lenses horizontally in half and mount them in a new frame, with the reading lens at the bottom and the distance lens at the top - Voila, Bifocals!' (pbs.org)

'In a letter to George Wheatley, dated Passy, May, 23, 1783, Benjamin Franklin describes and illustrates a pair of bifocal glasses which had had made for his use by Dollond, the famous optician of London. Just why this useful invention of Franklin's was allowed to lapse into obscurity for many generations after its discovery, is not known. One one think that a practical optician such as Dollond would have grasped its value, and that its usefulness, so easily demonstrated, would have introduced it at once into popular vogue.

Franklin, following his invariable custom, did not patent his idea, so that there was no restriction on Dollond or any other optician who wished to make ...Read MORE...


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1786 - A donation of books from Ben Franklin to act as the start of a Franklin town library arrived in Franklin.

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1788 Marriage of Child
William FRANKLIN married 14 August 1788, London, England to Mary D EVELIN

Burial
Name: Benjamin Franklin
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 1790
Event Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Cemetery: Christ's Church Cemetery
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Death Date: 1790
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Latitude: 39.95231
Longitude: -75.1483
Affiliate Image Identifier: 5493544
Affiliate Create Date: 2013-10-11 20:59:38

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1790 Death
17 April 1790
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

He died at the age of 84.

1885 - Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
Benjamin Franklin, born at Boston, 1706; died in 1790; at twelve, printer's apprentice, fond of useful reading; twenty-seven to forty teaches himself Latin, etc., makes various useful improvements; at forty studies electricity; 1752 brings electricity from clouds by kite and invents the lightning rod.
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January 20, 1885