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As Philadelphia's most famous resident, Benjamin Franklin greatly contributed to the historic significance of the city. Create a travel brochure for the city that highlights locations Franklin helped to make famous or are dedicated to his memory and accomplishments. The following sites will help you gather information about the city and Franklin:
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Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the "New England Courant." To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in October, 1723. He soon obtained work as a printer, but after a few months he was induced by Governor Keith to go to London, where, finding Keith's promises empty, he again worked as a compositor till he was brought back to Philadelphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in his business. On Denman's death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a printing house of his own from which he published "The Pennsylvania Gazette," to which he contributed many essays, and which he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms.
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In 1740 he invents the Franklin stove, refusing a patent on the device because it was for "the good of the people." He proposes an academy, which after raising money by subscription opens and expands enough that a new building for it has to be constructed. Franklin obtains other governmental positions (city councilman, alderman, burgess, justice of the peace) and helps negotiate a treaty with the Indians. After helping Dr. Thomas Bond establish a hospital, he helps pave the streets of Philadelphia and draws up a proposal for Dr. Fothergill about doing so in London. In 1753 Franklin becomes Deputy Postmaster General.
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Although the letter does not foreshadow or reflect any of the ideas, values or ambitions of Franklin concerning any of his inventions or civic achievements, it does demonstrate Franklin's love for literature. Franklin mentioned he wished for Strahan to enquire after books, particularly one called Stewart's Athens. Franklin's involvement in printing and press, such as The Philadelphia Gazette, allowed for many of his ideas to be broadcast to the public. He published an "Address to the Public" on the issue of educating former slaves so that they could become contributing members of society. This was after Franklin's conversion to an abolitionist in 1785.
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On one occasion, when Whitefield visited this country, he wrote to Franklin, stating that the friend with whom he expected to lodge in Philadelphia had left the city. Franklin very naturally tendered him the hospitalities of his home. Referring to Whitefield's acceptance, he writes:
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