About Me
- I am in fact, Benjamin Franklin.
-I was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts.
- My mother's name was Abiah and my father's name was Josiah. I had nine brothers and seven sisters.
-I tried the school scene, but I didn't do too well in Arithmetic so I went into my fathers soap and candle business. I didn't do too well there either, so at the age of twelve, I worked as an apprentice, in my brother James' shop.
-At the age of seventeen, I ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but at the age of eighteen, I moved to London where I continued being a printer. That only lasted about two years, until I moved back to Philadelphia. Later, I opened my own printing shop in Philadelphia.
- In 1729, I introduced the Pennsylvania Gazette.
-A year later, I met my beautiful wife Deborah Read Rogers, and we later had three children, William, Francis, and Sarah. Francis died at the age of four from smallpox.
-In 1731, I opened the first public library.
-In 1745, my father died.
-Two years later, I wrote up the first ever electrical analysis. One year later, I retired from the printing business and started writing a book. My book Experiments and Observations on Electricity
and two years later it was published in London.
-In June of 1952, my son, William, and I performed what is known as the kite experiment. I wanted to prove that lightning wasn't from the gods, it was a form of electricity. I proved this by attaching a metal key to the base of the string and a peice of metal to the top of the kite, and when the lightning struck i put my knuckle against the key, and BAM! i got shocked.
-In 1774, my lovely wife died.
-In 1776, I signed the Declaration of Independence and in 1778, I signed the Treaty of Alliance with France.
-In 1782, I also helped negotiate peaceful terms with Great Britain in the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain.
-I was also the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention at the age of eighty one.
-On April 17 1790, at the age of 84, I died in Philadelphia.
