Benjamin Franklin Biography

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, a man who is considered one of the first “Americans” (many consider him as the first) where he had a great role in the establishment of the independence of the United States of America. He had a great deal of major and minor professions, which were of vital significance during that period of time. These professions include being a politician where his theories were remarkable, a scientist where he himself was an inventor, a postman, a diplomat and last but not least a man responsible for a lot of discoveries in the field of physics.
Early Life
The early stage in Franklin’s life was entangled with meandering where his family were facing a number of issues including poverty where his father Josiah Franklin was a mere soap maker, in addition to scarce financial support due to him being one of seventeen brothers and sisters.
Childhood
January 17, 1706, this day signified Franklin’s birthday where he was born on Milk Street, which is located in Boston, Massachusetts. Franklin’s old man had planed to make Benjamin attend school accompanied by the clergy, but his old man suffered from financial problems making him able to afford two year of studying even thought clergy men needed a certain amount of years schooling. Ultimately his education ended at the age of ten. He then worked for his father for two years, and was later apprenticed by his older brother James who’s profession was a printer. Franklin endured a grueling experience of composing pamphlets with his brother and selling their work on the streets. At the age of 15, Franklin along with his older brother James were the founders of the first truly independent newspaper in the colonies: The New-England Courant.
Years as a Neophyte
The New-Engl...

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...lin hoped that they wouldn’t be mad about his letters and he kept some of his letter that were later on stolen and was published by the public and he took full responsibility for them after that in London he was named a traitor and a thief by that he failed to solve the difference between that British and the Americans. Soon after that his reputation in England worsen which was the worse period in his career, A British solicitor names Alexander Wedderburn spent hours calling Franklin a criminal and a traitor as his friend in the council stood and critics accusing him, Franklin didn’t display any emotions but he was angry and kept his head high. As the people of the Americas wanting independence from the Great Britain, Benjamin was encouraging and giving aid to people on order to achieve independence by doing so he returned back to America seeking out independence.