The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin · 1791Franklin's account of his early life and rise in Philadelphia. Read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin page by page and explore its…Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the "New England Courant." To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in October, 1723. He soon obtained work as a…All books in the ECCE gallery