BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in Milk Street, Boston, on
    January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who
    married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest
    son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to
    his brother James, a printer, who published the "New England Courant."
    To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its
    nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going
    first to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in October,
    1723. He soon obtained work as a printer, but after a few months he was
    induced by Governor Keith to go to London, where, finding Keith's
    promises empty, he again worked as a compositor till he was brought back
    to Philadelphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in
    his business. On Denman's death he returned to his former trade, and
    shortly set up a printing house of his own from which he published "The
    Pennsylvania Gazette," to which he contributed many essays, and which
    he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms. In 1732 he
    began to issue his famous "Poor Richard's Almanac" for the enrichment of
    which he borrowed or composed those pithy utterances of worldly wisdom
    which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputation. In 1758, the
    year in which he ceases writing for the Almanac, he printed in it "Father
    Abraham's Sermon," now regarded as the most famous piece of literature
    produced in Colonial America.suming manner, that seldom fails to
    disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those
    purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving
    information or pland hers was so highly amusing to me, that I
    was sure to spend an evening with her whenever she desired it. Our supper
    was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter,
    members of the Junto had each a few. We had left the alehouse, where we
    first met, and hired a room to hold our club in. I propos'd that we should
    all of us bring our books to that room, where theeded, I was encourag'd to
    engage in others, and to promote several of my workmen, who had
    behaved well, by establishing them with printing-houses in different
    colonies, on the same terms with tf
    you do not this service to your king and country voluntarily, when such
    good pay and reasonable terms are offered to you, your loyalty will be
    strongly suspected. The king's business must be d