Keimer’s, set up in business for themselves the capital beingįurnished by Meredith’s father.
In 1728 Franklin and Hugh Meredith, a fellow-worker at After a year and a half in London, Franklin was persuaded by a friend named Denham, a Quaker merchant, to return with him to America and engage in mercantile business he accordingly gave up printing, but a few days before sailing he received a tempting offer to remain and give lessons in swimming-his feats as a swimmer having given him considerable reputation-and he says that he might have consented “had the overtures been sooner made.” He reached Philadelphia in October 1726, but a few months later Denham died, and Franklin was induced by large wages to return to his old employer Keimer with Keimer he quarrelled repeatedly, thinking himself ill used and kept only to train apprentices until they could in some degree take his place. To refute this book and to prove that there could be no such thing as religion, he wrote and printed a small pamphlet, A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, which brought him some curious acquaintances, and of which he soon became thoroughly ashamed. At Palmer’s he had set up a second edition of Wollaston’s Religion of Nature Delineated. Franklin reached London in December 1724, and found employment first at Palmer’s, a famous printing house in Bartholomew Close, and afterwards at Watts’s Printing House. Keith had repeatedly promised to send a letter of credit by the ship on which Franklin sailed, but when the Channel was reached and the ship’s mails were examined no such letter was found. Printing office and sent him to England to buy the materials. Sir William Keith (1680–1749), governor of the province, urged him to start in business for himself, and when Franklin had unsuccessfully appealed to his father for the means to do so, Keith promised to furnish him with what he needed for the equipment of a new
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He got employment with a printer named SamuelĪ rapid composer and a workman full of resource, Franklin was soon recognized as the master spirit of the shop. New York City, and then (October 1723) to Philadelphia, where Superior ability and Benjamin determined to quit his brother’sĮmploy and to leave New England. Relations of the two brothers gradually grew unfriendly, possibly,Īs Benjamin thought, because of his brother’s jealousy of his Particularly his free-thinking, displeased the authorities the Richard.” But Benjamin’s management of the paper, and Signed “Mistress Silence Dogood,” gave promise of “Poor Of his articles signed “Dr Janus,” which, like those previously Was received with much favour, chiefly because of the cleverness It appeared with Benjamin’s name as that of the publisher and James Franklin in 1722 was forbidden to publish the Courant, When, after various journalistic indiscretions, Sort Benjamin threw off his disguise and contributed regularly Printing shop with no name attached, and which was printed andĪttracted some attention. His success in reproducingĪrticles he had read in The Spectator led him to write an articleįor his brother’s paper, which he slipped under the door of the Which had been printed by his brother and sold on the streets)Īnd turned to prose composition. Thanks to his father’sĮxcellent advice, he gave up writing doggerel verse (much of The Pilgrim’s Progress, with Locke, On the Human Understanding,Īnd with a volume of The Spectator. At an early age he had made himself familiar with Pulpit now they inclined rather to intellectual than to other One of the earliest newspapers in America.īenjamin’s tastes had at first been for the sea rather than the James, who was establishing himself in the printingīusiness, and who in 1721 started the New England Courant, In his thirteenth year he was apprenticed to his half-brother
To assist his father in the business of a tallow-chandler and soapboiler. He spent a year there and a year in a school for writing andĪrithmetic, and then at the age of ten he was taken from school When eight years old he was sent to the Boston grammar school,īeing destined by his father for the church as a tithe of his sons.
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BenjaminĬould not remember when he did not know how to read, and He had married young and had migratedįrom Banbury to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1685. Strongly Protestant Franklin family may be traced back for The elder Franklin wasīorn at Ecton in Northamptonshire, England, where the The eighth child and youngest son of ten children borne byĪbiah Folger, his father’s second wife. He was the tenth son of Josiah Franklin, and In a house in Milk Street, opposite the Old South church, Boston, Statesman and scientist, was born on the 17th of January 1706 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706–1790), American diplomat,
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