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Born.
• Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger.
When he started.
• he would write letters at night and sign them with a name of a fictional widow named “silence dogwood” for his brothers newspaper.
he went to work for his step-brother James Benjamin secretly contributed 14 essays to his half-brothers paper called The New
England Courant.
And worked on his own newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette.
Short biography of Benjamin franklins time as a journalist
Some of Benjamin Franklins great achievements as a journalist.
• The New-England Courant 1721–1726, Published by James and Benjamin Franklin.
• Benjamin Franklin, Letters from “Martha Careful” and “Caelia Shortface” to The American Weekly Mercury
In memory of Franklin.
• Benjamin Franklin was remembered for writing the declaration of independence along with Thomas Jefferson, john Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
Sites.
• http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/
• http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/benjamin-franklin/a-short-biography.php
• http://www.librarycompany.org/bfwriter/writer.htm
• Http://www.google.com/benjamin_franklin/