BENJAMIN Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. 

• He attended Boston Latin School but his father could not afford it so he took him out. He went back to school but at George Brownell's English School. He finished in 1716 and never went back to school again.

 Benjamin was the youngest of all eleven, brothers and sisters.  His house was always noisy, crowded but a happy home. Later on Benjamin proposed to his wife, Deborah Read at the age eighteen but when Ben was away in England, his wife married another man named John Rogers. When Ben returned they lived a Common- Law Marriage. They had two kids but Deborah died after suffering from a Stroke.

Benjamin Franklin was raised as a Puritan. But as an enlightenment thinker he became a deist later on in life. He was also into Christianity.

Benjamin was part of the revolutionary war because he served in the second continental congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He also negotiated the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary war.

Benjamin face is also on the Hundred Dollar Bill