Benjamin Franklin: A Brief Biography

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According to www.biography.com, Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston. Franklin’s father Josiah Franklin was a candle maker. Franklin started reading at a young age, he got a job as an apprentice printer at the age of 12. Franklin was also a very intelligent man he studied to become an apprentice, and got his degree in Doctor Of Laws at the University of Edinburgh and Oxford.
Before the American Revolutionary war Franklin resided in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin learned a lot about news publishing. www.ushistory.org states that, “Franklin used to pretend to be an old woman in town, and he would print out his opinion on things

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