Perhaps it was. Over 35 years of marriage, Benjamin Franklin had indirectly praised Deborah’s work ethic and common sense through “wife” characters in his Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just this kind ... (“And sometime last week, we are informed, that one Piles a Fidler, with his wife, were overset in a canoe near Newtown Creek.

The Oscar winner, who stars as Benjamin Franklin in the new Apple TV+ limited ... at least not compared to his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. But on Friday nights, the actor, 79, will kick off with ...

The members of the Chili Historical Society say the list of Remarkable Rochesterians doesn’t reflect the importance of agriculture.

In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and ...