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The description of Abiah in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is very brief — only two sentences — and has been the focus of recent scholarship. [6] Matthew Garrett wrote that "the Autobiography is perhaps the finest example within the modern narrative tradition of a text that habitually compresses major characters - those, that is, who play integral and significant roles within the plot ...
Benjamin Franklin's mother, Abiah, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife, Mary Morrell Folger, a former indentured servant.
Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) [a] was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read.. In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died shortly thereafter.
The informative, well-framed and entertaining "Benjamin Franklin," premiering Monday on PBS, explores the life and times of our most colorful founder. Ben Franklin was the most famous American of ...
Benjamin Franklin in 1759, as painted by Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788) Benjamin Franklin sat on the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1755. Gauging the panic that was spreading throughout the province, he had strongly urged Governor Morris and his fellow assemblymen that military force was necessary in the face of the Native American threat. [31]
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States until her death in 1774. Early years [ edit ]
A Benjamin Franklin impersonator appears as a playable character in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2. One of the character's special moves replicates the kite experiment. The mascot of the Philadelphia 76ers NBA team is a dog named Franklin, after Benjamin Franklin. An alternate logo for the team depicts Franklin playing basketball.
YouTube personality Ben Potter’s cause of death has been revealed. The Colorado State Patrol told Us Weekly on Tuesday, June 12, that the YouTube star, who was best known as Comicstorian, was ...