Ben Franklin

This Blog is Important because I would like to know more about Ben Franklin and what happen around his time as President. Ben Franklin was Born January 17, 1706 in Boston he was the youngest son of josiah and Abiah. 1715, Ben final formal year of schooling. Trying to comprehend Ben's life and legacy is like trying to grab a shadow each time one tries to get a fix on the reflection it dart away and grows even larger.By turns pamphleteer, apprentice, printer, balladeer, inventor, philosopher, politician, soldier, firefighter, ambassador, family man, sage, delegate, signer, shopkeeper, bookseller, cartoonist, grandfather, anti-slavery agitator, Mason, and deist — he was all of the above and none of the above. Ben Franklin was a By the time I pulled out of those pleasant daydreams, my companion was saying: "At twelve I was apprenticed to my older brother James, a printer. Hard work, heavy work, and James was a bully, quick to hand out a slap or worse. On the other hand, James had gone to London and brought back lively books and magazines, all very different from the religious tracts that were the only reading matter in our Boston home. And you know what I did, Temple?