Benjamin+Franklin

media type="custom" key="9303144"Ben is an awesome guy to have around.
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[[image:http://photos2.fotosearch.com/bthumb/FSD/FSD315/x30513676.jpg]]Ben Franklin is in the Franklin Institute
Benjamin Franklins wife's name is Deborah Read, they met in Philadelphia when he ran away from home they were on opposite streets when ben saw Deborah.

Awesome Ben Franklin Quotes

==Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in London,his father was a leather Apron Man he selled soaps and candles soon or later Ben would be a priest. Ben has 9 brothers, and sisters, and 7 half brothers ,and sisters. Ben had to sign a paper saying that he had to be an apprentice until he was 21 years old he worked his brother James Franklin. Ben was an expert on swimming he once read about this book about swimming it had some tricks, and strokes that taght Ben to do fantastic stuff. Ben also wanted to be more better at arithmetic, Ben was so into arithmetic he made up a game called magic squares each row of numbers would add up to 260. When Ben was 17 years old he ran away and landed in Philadelphia there he met his first wife Deborah Read. They got married in 1730 Ben now owned his own print shop Ben, and Deborah owned a shop on top of their house Benjamin also started up a fire department called the Union Fire Company. He also find a college named the University of Pennsylvania in 1732 when he 26 years old he wrote his own book called the Poor Richard Almanack.That day Bens son was born on October 20th 1732, he died on November 21st, 1736 with the chiken Pox. He also built the Franklin Stove, lightening rod, simple odometer, and the glass armonica. Benjamin Franklin had an idea of flying a kite which had a key on the kite he was just trying to show the colonists that lightening is the same thing as electricity. One day Ben was trying to perform a electrical picnic he was going to plan to kill a turkey with a container connected to a electrical circuits. Ben's daughter was born on September 11 1743. Benjamin signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Ben died on April 17, 1790 when he 84 years old he had the biggest idea of his time- the idea of an Independent United States.==