Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was a famous printer, author, inventor, scientist, public servant and diplomat. He was commonly called “the first civilized American.” Franklin was born on the seventeenth day of January in 1706, on Milk Street in Boston Mass., he was his parents fifteenth child. Benjamin obviously respected his father, who probably taught him to read, so early that he could not remember learning it. While he was a young boy, A private teacher, George …

…last journey home. He had a stone in his bladder, which made carriage travel an agony. In Philadelphia he was elected to the executive council of the state and a few days later chosen president, serving three years. He had to stay in bed for the whole last year of his life, taking opium for pain. He was 84 years old when he died. Philadelphia gave him the most impressive funeral the city had ever seen.