Benjamin Franklin Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin has a special place in the hearts and minds of American people. He was

born on January 6, 1706 (and later changed January 17 when calendar was renew in the middle

of the century). The place of his birth was at Milk Street Boston across from the Old South

Church. He came from a poor and big family. His father is Josiah Franklin who was from the

village of Ecton in Northamstonhire who migrated in New World in 1863 to search for religious

freedom and became a candle and soap maker. Josiah Franklin came in America with three kids

and two more were born after their arrival in New World, with his wife Ann Franklin who died

in the age of 34 years old.

Five months after Josiah Franklin lost his first wife Ann Franklin, he married again a girl

from Nantucket, name Abiah Folger she raised Ann’s surviving five children and have ten more

children of four girls and six boys including Benjamin Franklin the number fifteen of the

seventeen the youngest son. She is a strong native lady that lived healthy until she’s in her

eighties was never sick until the day of her death.

Young Benjamin Franklin was unusual and proud child he said. (“I do not remember when

I could not read,” he recall). He is determined never to be made fun of the second time for the

same mistake he made. "One day, he was given a little money to buy whatever he wished. On

his way to the shop he met an older boy blowing a whistle. Charmed by his marvel, he bought it

for all the coins in his pocket. When he got home and exasperated everybody with his shrill

whistling, he was teased by one and all for having paid such an exorbitant price for silly object, a

lesson he never forgot. Spending your money unwisely not only makes you look foolish but it is

wrong.

This makes his father to send the eight year old boy to a special grammar school in