Benjamin Franklin

           Ben’s childhood. Benjamin Franklin was really smart.  He was born on January 6, 1706.  He was born in a tiny house on Milk street in Boston.  He was the youngest son out of 17 brothers and sisters.  His father Josiah Franklin’s job was to make soap and candles at a shop.  His mother Abiah raised the children.  Benjamin Franklin thought it was a crowded, noisy, and happy home.

When Ben was 8 years old his father sent him to South Grammar school.  After several months, however, Josiah decided he could not pay the money and he took Ben out, but this wasn’t the end of Ben in school because soon he went to George Brownell’s English school.  He finished school in 1716 and never went back again because his family was too poor to afford it.

Benjamin Franklin young printer. His dad sent Ben around to watch several tradesmen, but none of them interested him.  Ben wanted to go to sea.  But, instead Ben ended up as an apprentice to his half brother James.  Ben loved english, and reading.  Reading was a hobby to him, so this job seemed as good.  While learning the trade from his brother, he worked on his writing, copying the style of essays he read in a copy of a magazine.

When James started a paper shop in 1721, named the New England Courant, while Ben started another paper called, the silent dogood.  The essays made fun of Boston society and became popular.  In 1722 James was put in jail twice for criticizing in his newspaper-freedom of the press but it didn’t exist then.  During this time Ben published the paper of his own.  When James was out of prison he and Ben had lots of arguments. Excluding patience Ben quit the printing shop.  Ben wanted to work with another Boston printer but there was none.
Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments.  Ben Franklin was one of the founding fathers of America.  He invented electricity.  Ben invented electricity in 1746 by flying a kite and putting a key on where he holds it and he kept getting shocked.  That is how he invented electricity.  Another accomplishment he made was being the 6th president of the united states of america.