His “Pennsylvania Gazette” made him skilled and wealthy, which allowed him to retire from printing at a fairly young age (Logan, 7). Benjamin Franklin became an inventor/scientist after he retired from printing. He took on a lot of different challenges in his life. He established a library, a fire company, a college, an insurance company, a hospital, a police force, among other things (Saari, 74). He invented many things that are still in use today, such as the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, and the Franklin stove (Arnold, 61).
Bryce Schmidtchen Mrs. Connolly English 3 8 October 2012 Ben Franklin’s Famous Maxims 1.Ben Franklin was only twelve years old when he learned the concept of only printing honest truths. Bens Brother James taught Ben the printing trade in his office that he opened in Boston. In the future when Ben was seventeen years old he became very talented with printing. Ben left Boston to find work with printing in Philadelphia and London. In 1728 he opened his own printing office in Philadelphia.
Franklin ended up as an apprentice to his half-brother, James who was a printer. He was supposed to work for him until he was twenty one years of age. Franklin liked his job, had access to better books and while learning the trade of his brother; Franklin worked and improved his writing as time progressed. Going to grammar school, and reading every article or book he could find led Franklin to his occupation. Franklin cannot even distinguish a day that he didn’t know how to read.
Sir Titus Salt was born on the 20th of September 1803. He was the first of 7 children and aspired to be a doctor. In 1822 he moved with his family to Bradford to concentrate on the booming textiles business. In 1833, after Titus married his wife Caroline in 1830, Titus’ father passed away leaving Titus to inherit the family business. Throughout the next two centuries Titus continued his rise to fame becoming Mayor of Bradford in 1848 and working towards making conditions in factories better for workers.
Ben’s father wanted him to be a clergyman but could not pay for the amount of schooling required. Ben was an apprentice to his brother who owned a printing shop which is where he learned how to print, write, and typesetting. He later became a writer and an inventor and opened his own printing shop. Ben was from Boston, but he always considered Philadelphia his true home. His role in his home state was founding the first library, the first volunteer fire company, the first postal system, and the first
From his father’s first marriage, he had seven siblings. Talk about a big family! Working as a candle and soap maker, Ben’s father wanted all of his sons to learn a trade. ( http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/timeline/birth.html) At the age of ten, Ben helped his father in his shop although; Ben’s father wanted him to enter the clergy. Quickly, he learned to read and write.
During these middle years of his life he worked on getting his printing business off the ground. He succeeded and his printing shop grew and grew. By 1730, at the age of 24, he owned his own printing shop. He then began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette, of which he wrote much of the material. It grew to become one of the most successful newspapers in the country.
The government’s purpose was to inform the citizens of Britain of the options that they had. They had many reasons to be honest about the information in the pamphlet because the lives of many innocent people were on the line. The pamphlet can be compared to a promise to the people. This information was recorded during World War II but before the German air strikes. This document helped right history because it was developed during a major war in world history.
Tommy read the entire book later that day and reread it hundreds of times over the years. The book became an inspiration to him. Charles Frederick enlisted in the Union Army at nineteen years of age. His family was wealthy aristocrats from Boston, who were very critical of his decision to enlist. They saw the issue of slavery as being of no consequence to them.
This lead to Susan’s father to open up a school himself for his children. Mary Perkins, Susan’s teacher, was educated and held a position which only men held at the time. Perkins taught the children with poems and school books. At the age of fifteen, Susan ended up teaching at her fathers school in Philadelphia during the summer and taught till the age of thirty. Over time, Susan B. Anthony became one of the most important leaders who became active in standing up for temperance,