![]() ![]() Dipping wax and cutting wicks didn’t fire the young boy’s imagination, however. Franklin was his 15th child and youngest son.įranklin learned to read at an early age, and despite his success at the Boston Latin School, he stopped his formal schooling at 10 to work full-time in his cash-strapped father’s candle and soap shop. Early Lifeįranklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, in what was then known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony.įranklin’s father, English-born soap and candlemaker Josiah Franklin, had seven children with first wife, Anne Child, and 10 more with second wife, Abiah Folger. A writer known for his wit and wisdom, Franklin also published Poor Richard’s Almanack, invented bifocal glasses and organized the first successful American lending library. ![]() His scientific pursuits included investigations into electricity, mathematics and mapmaking. ![]() ![]() Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War. Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father and a polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. ![]()
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