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 Ancestry of Benjamin Franklin written by Mary L. Pendered and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Genealogy and Family Charts of Benjamin Franklin written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Loyal Son written by Daniel Mark Epstein and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution—from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America’s founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness—even his grandfatherly appearance—are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals that dogged him throughout his life. In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the more enigmatic aspects of Franklin’s biography: his complex and confounding relationship with his illegitimate son William. When he was twenty-four, Franklin fathered a child with a woman who was not his wife. He adopted the boy, raised him, and educated him to be his aide. Ben and William became inseparable. After the famous kite-in-a-thunderstorm experiment, it was William who proved that the electrical charge in a lightning bolt travels from the ground up, not from the clouds down. On a diplomatic mission to London, it was William who charmed London society. He was invited to walk in the procession of the coronation of George III; Ben was not. The outbreak of the American Revolution caused a devastating split between father and son. By then, William was royal governor of New Jersey, while Ben was one of the foremost champions of American independence. In 1776, the Continental Congress imprisoned William for treason. George Washington made efforts to win William’s release, while his father, to the world’s astonishment, appeared to have abandoned him to his fate. A fresh take on the combustible politics of the age of independence, The Loyal Son is a gripping account of how the agony of the American Revolution devastated one of America’s most distinguished families. Like Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough, Epstein is a storyteller first and foremost, a historian who weaves together fascinating incidents discovered in long-neglected documents to draw us into the private world of the men and women who made America. “The history of loyalist William Franklin and his famous father has been told before but not as fully or as well as it is by Daniel Mark Epstein in The Loyal Son. Mr. Epstein, a biographer and poet, has done a lot of fresh research and invests his narrative with literary grace and judicious sympathy for both father and son.”—The Wall Street Journal

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 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 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 Benjamin Franklin s Family and Descendants written by Henry Lewis Bullen and published by . This book was released on 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 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 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 The Age of Benjamin Franklin written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the Franklins were a typical 18th century family - extended across space (New England, the West Indies, and Europe), and filled with comedy and tragedy, wealth and poverty. Here, you will meet his parents and siblings, learn the story of his wife and first-born son, and accompany Franklin on his travels as his family grew.

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 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.