Ben Franklin is Lighting it up!!!!!!

           Well today I studied about Ben Franklin. He is actually a pretty cool dude.

             Ben was born on January 17,1706 in Massachusetts. He was the third youngest 

of 17 children (talk about a BIG family and i thought 4 was hard). Ben taught himself how

to read and right at the age of seven. The first job he had was a printing job. 

 Back then printers were well respected. He worked with is older brother James. His older 

brother owned  New-England Courant. Here is a link to see the newspaper

http://www.masshist.org/online/silence_dogood/. So after Ben decided to leave Boston.

Ben then got his own newspaper. The newspaper was the Pennfylvania GAZETTE.

Ben Franklin invented a lot of stuff like the lighting rod. Heres a website inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/ss/Franklin_invent.htm.
Ben Franklin was a very honerd man and well respected. He died in 1790 at the
age of 84. thanks for reading -Hannah