The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By Eliot, Charles William

Book Id: WPLBN0000675880
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 958.95 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited
Author:	Eliot, Charles William
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Eliot, C. W. (n.d.). The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor.

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