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Benjamin Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, soaper, and candlemaker. Josiah Franklin was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire , England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and his wife, Jane White.
A 1777 portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Rev. John Andrews, D.D., Provost 1810-1813. Provost [note 1] Birth–death
The first openly LGBTQ+ organization funded by Penn was formed in 1972 by Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and Penn alumnus from the college's class of 1966, when he created the Gay Coffee Hour, which met every week on campus and was also open to non-students and served as an alternative space to gay bars for gay people of all ages ...
Thomas Penn (19 March 1702 [O.S. 8 March 1702] – 21 March 1775) [a] was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775. He was one of 17 children of William Penn, the founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in British America.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
Founder(s) Samuel Keimer Benjamin Franklin in 1729, who bought and reoriented the publication into a 'news only' newspaper: Founded: 1728; 297 years ago () (as The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette) Political alignment: Non partisan: Ceased publication: 1800 () Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Franklin Field is a sports stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the eastern edge of the University of Pennsylvania's campus. Named after Penn's founder, Benjamin Franklin, it is the home stadium for the Penn Relays, [2] and the university's venue for football, track and field, and lacrosse.
The College of Arts & Sciences was preceded by two schools, the Charity School and the Academy of Philadelphia.Initially organized by the founder of Methodism, George Whitefield, as "Charity School," a secondary school known as "Academy of Philadelphia" was eventually founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1749, and was expanded to include a collegiate division known as "College of Philadelphia" in ...