Download or read book Benjamin Franklin s Family Volume I English Ancestors written by Michael J. Leclerc Cg and published by Benjamin Franklin's Family. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin is one of the most well-known figures in history. Franklin himself was very interested in his family history and collected a number of stories about his Franklin ancestors. Despite hundreds of volumes that have been published on him that include details his family, no compiled genealogy of the family has ever been done. Here for the first time is the genealogy of the family, published to modern documentation standards.This volume documents more than two dozen Franklin families from the 1500s to the 1700s, elaborating on many previously-known individuals, correcting inaccurate information, and adding new family members. It also reviews Franklin families that are not related to Benjamin Franklin.In addition to the Franklins, the ancestries of the women who married into the family in England are examined for the first time: Anne Child, wife of Josiah Franklin; Jane White, wife of Thomas Franklin; Agnes Jones, wife of Henry Franklin; and Margery Meadows, wife of Thomas Franklin.
Download or read book The Life Story of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Madison & Adams Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a record of the life of one of the most impressive individuals in the American history. Franklin's autobiography, although unfinished, represents one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. His book is the record of an unusual life told in his own unexcelled conversational style. The Autobiography is Franklin's longest work, and yet it is only a fragment of it. The account of Franklin's life is divided in a manner that reflects the different periods in which he wrote them. The first part, written as a letter to his son, William Franklin, was not intended for publication; the composition is more informal and the narrative more personal than in the second part, from 1730 onward, which was written with a view to publication. Contents: Ancestry and Early Life in Boston Beginning Life as a Printer Arrival in Philadelphia First Visit to Boston Early Friends in Philadelphia First Visit to London Beginning Business in Philadelphia Business Success and First Public Service Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Activities Interest in Public Affairs Defense of the Province Public Services and Duties Albany Plan of Union
Download or read book Letters to Benjamin Franklin from His Family and Friends written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1771 and 1790, American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin sat down to record the important events of his life, from his childhood in Boston to his work as a printer in Philadelphia, to his trips to Paris and his plans for the first public library. The story of the invention of the Franklin stove, the first Poor Richard's Almanac, and his experiments with electricity are all included here. His "Project for Moral Perfection"—a list of desirable virtues and steps to achieve them—influenced the modern self-help genre. Hundreds of years later, Franklin's account of his rise from middle-class obscurity to become a world-renowned scholar and civic figure continues to promote the American Dream. First published in 1791, this unabridged version of Franklin's autobiography is taken from the 1909 copyright edition.
Download or read book Letters to Benjamin Franklin from his Family and Friends 1751 1790 written by William Duane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Letters to Benjamin Franklin from His Family and Friends 1751 1790 The Editor s Preface Signed W D I e William Duane With Portraits written by W. D. and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to Benjamin Franklin written by C. Benjamin Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracing Our Roots written by Cecil D. Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Benjamin Franklin Nickel written by Phyllis Ferrara Hoggatt and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin Nickel was born 11 July 1810 in Pennsylvania. He married Julia Ann McCorkle, daughter of John McCorkle (1788-1857) and Susannah Powell (1789-1860), 24 March 1833 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. They had ten children. They moved to Neptune, Mercer, Ohio in 1836. Benjamin fought in the Civil War. He died in Tennessee in 1862. Includes a transcript of his brief Civil War diary. Includes Fanger, Lackey, Nottingham, Shepherd and related families.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin s Last Bet written by Michael Meyer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.
Download or read book Letters to Benjamin Franklin from His Family and Friends 1751 1790 written by Ed 1808-1882 William Duane and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Genealogy of Benjamin Franklin Bales written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history and genealogical information about the ancestry of Benjamin Franklin Bales who was born 6 March 1882 in Shelby, Indiana. He was the son of David Bales and a descendant of John Bales (or Beals( who was born ca. 1667 in Englane and immigrated to America sometime prior to the year 1680. Benjamin married Ethel Florence Davis 15 April 1906 in Owen, Indiana and died 4 January 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ancestors of Benjamin Bales lived in England, Marylane, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Butler Ancestry of Gen Benjamin Franklin Butler in America written by Blanche Butler Ames and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Young Benjamin Franklin written by Nick Bunker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
Download or read book Book of Ages written by Jill Lepore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR • Time Magazine • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Boston Globe A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians—a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother’s fame and wealth but who, like him, was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one extraordinary woman but an entire world.
Download or read book Meet Benjamin Franklin An eStory written by Charles Margerison and published by Amazing People Club. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the most famous of all the Founding Fathers. His story comes to life as you travel with him from his early years, as part of a large family, to his time at the printing company with his brother James. This ultimately resulted in his journey to England and France, a turn of events that would define the rest of his life. His remarkable story unfurls through BioViews®. Each story comes to life through BioViews®. These are short biographical narratives, similar to interviews. They provide an easy way of learning about amazing people who made major contributions and changed our world.
Download or read book The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book World From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.
