Benjamin Franklin Biography

Benjamin Franklin, a larger than life individual in every sense of the word; although his life was riddled with failure, his successes were the driving force of his fame. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 6th, 1706 to a family of meager means (Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1909). His father, Josiah Franklin was a Candle and soap maker while his mother, Abiah Folger was a housewife and mother of twelve children total. Franklin was educated in seminary school until the age of ten where he then left due to money issues. At the age of seventeen Franklin ran away from home to New York first then to Philadelphia looking for work as a printer. Franklin got married at the age of twenty-four to his sweetheart Deborah Read (Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1909). Franklin’s life continued moving him in to fames frame by his accomplishments as a Businessman, Writer, Inventor, Weatherman, Statesman, Patriot and Founding Father of The United States of America (Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1909). Benjamin Franklin success as a writer, lead him to be successful businessman, which in-turn gave him the platform to become a great patriot.

Franklin started his career as an apprentice at age ten, for his father Josiah wherein, he worked for two years which he then was forced into working for his older brother James Franklin, Franklin stated, “I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman’s wages during the last year” (Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 2006). Franklin always wanted to become a writer in which he started in secret with a series of letters called the Silence Dogood letters (Frankli...

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...dence. In a way, the life of Franklin had gone full circle; in an article posted by John Fea, Franklin had written a letter to Ezra Stiles about his religious beliefs, Franklin stated, “I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe” but goes on to state, “as for Jesus of Nazareth ... I think the system of Morals and Religion as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw ... but I have ... some Doubts to his Divinity; though' it is a Question I do not dogmatism upon” (Fea, 2011). After Franklin had done everything in his life that he felt he needed to deal with, writing, owning a business, becoming an inventor, and becoming a founding father of The United States of America. Franklin passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of eighty-four; his funeral was held in Philadelphia where he was buried next to his wife Deborah Read Rodgers Franklin (Center, 1790).