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Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Early): Printer
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When introducing Benjamin Franklin, show students his own Epitaph that he wrote at the age of 22. Franklin wanted to be remembered as a printer. Also, remind students that people over 100 years ago, put long epitaphs on their tombstones. Have them follow Franklin's style of writing using the same phrases, and write their own epitaph of how they would like to be remembered. Make it all school appropriate. It can be a career choice or a value judgment such as a "good father.
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Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) the Royal Governor of New Jersey. While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, Franklin begins by saying that it may be agreeable to his son to know some of the incidents of his father's life; so with a week's uninterrupted leisure, he is beginning to write them for William. He starts with some anecdotes of his grandfather, uncles, and father and mother. He deals with his childhood, his fondness of reading, and his serving as an apprentice to his brother James, a Boston printer and the publisher of the New England Courant. After improving his writing skills through study of the Spectator by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, he writes an anonymous paper and slips it under the door of the printing house by night. Not knowing its author, James and his friends praise the paper and it is published in the Courant, and this encourages Ben to produce more essays (the "Silence Dogood" essays) which are ... published.
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Franklin was largely self-taught and as a boy was an extensive reader of Bunyan, Defoe, Addison, Locke and such others. At 12 he was apprenticed as a printer to his brother James. By the time he was 16 he was contributing (under the pseudonom of Silence Dogood) to The Courant, a paper established by his brother.
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Franklin's father intended Ben to become a clergyman, but the boy only attended two years of grammar school. After working for his father as a candlemaker for a few years, he became apprenticed to his brother, James, as a printer.
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