Ben Franklin was born on a snowy, January morning in the year 1706. Baby Ben had sixteen brothers and sisters; of these, only thirteen lived. Ben was the fifteenth son of his mother, Josiah and father, Abiah. Franklin's mother was an original house wife-she cooked and she cleaned (Davidson.p.9). By the age of five, Ben knew how to take care of himself. Unlike all of his brothers and sisters, he really did not mind. Ben played all the time, and he loved flying kites and climbing trees. Ben went to school for two full years of his life. He studied Latin, reading, writing, and arithmetic. Young Ben loved to read. He could never put his book down (Usel.p.5).

Ben had a daughter, Sally and two sons, Francis and William. Little Francis died at the age of four due to smallpox. Later, on April 17, 1790, Franklin died at the age of eighty-four (Usel.p.21). Ben was born, as was our country, in the independence minded age when a young boy of industry could runaway and become a hero, a business, and a statesman (Donavan.p.35).

Franklin is and was a semi-genius. He was very successful and matched his goals (Usel.p.5). Franklin loved to read anything that he could get his hands on. Any time you saw him, He had a book in his hands. Every night, Franklin would sneak out, break into a library, take some books, read them, and return them before the owner got there. Through all of the years, the owned never knew. In 1721, Ben's older brother James began his own newspaper business call "The New England". It had interesting things about people who lived there. One afternoon, Ben's brother found a letter that was slipped under the door. The letter was signed Mrs. Silence Dogood. James printed the letter, and the readers loved it. More of Mrs. Dogood's letters mysteriously appeared in his shop, and James printed them all. Mrs. Silence Dogood was actually Ben at age seventeen. After that, Franklin became a published writer (Usel.p.9). Then he became a master printer, and he was expected to whip Keimer's Business (Donavan.p.30).

While he was in Philadelphia, he became another printer. Shortly after that, Deborah and Ben were married. Although they were often apart, their hearts were inseparable. Ben wrote to her all the time, and the letters were always headed to "My Dear Debbie" (Usel.p.11). Once when Franklin was off on a trip, he met a man who owned a candle making business. The man offered him major wages, and he gladly accepted. Shortly after Ben started working, the man died, and Franklin was free to go back to printing (Donavan.p.30). A few years later when Franklin was twenty-two, he opened a print shop where Debbie often helped him. He printed the major newspaper called "The Pennsylvania Gazette". He ran off stuff about the people of the colony and also much more. He also ran off "Poor Richard's Almanac", which except for the Bible, was a best seller (Usel.p.13). As Franklin approached the mid point of his life in 1744, he took a trip to Boston. While he was there, he met the engaging Dr. Archibald Spencer. Dr. Spencer was a physician and a lecturer on national philosophy. He used electrical experiment's to illustra

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