BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

BIRTH AND DEATH

• Born on January 17, 1706
• Died on April 17, 1790

Ben had many jobs such as, a soap maker, inventor, scientist, philosopher, printer, cabbage-grower, civic leader, postmaster, book printer, etc.

Benjamin married Deborah Read in 1730, he was a ladies man though.

QUOTES

• "A penny is a penny earned"
• "Time is money"
• "Lost time is never found"

When he was 16 he feminist "Silence Dogood" letters that were published in his brothers newspaper called The New England Courant

He was the owner of the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper

His face is on the one hundred dollar bill

He created one of the first heated stoves

He was the only one to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution of the United States