“We throve together,” Benjamin wrote in his autobiography, “and have ever mutually endeavour ... She named them for her father and brother—Benjamin Franklin Bache (or “Benny ...

When Benjamin Franklin’s brother John experienced painful bladder ... Franklin is often referred to as the “only U.S. President to have never been U.S. President.” But he was the governor ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was ... 12-year-old Franklin is set up as an apprentice to his elder brother, James, a printer. His brother had served his own ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin ... in Boston, Franklin was the 15th of 17 children. Franklin left school at 10 and began an apprenticeship in his brother's print ...