The Autobiography of Benjamin 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 …
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- AuthorBenjamin Franklin
- SourceProject Gutenberg #148
- Length66,840 words · 4h 27m of reading
- Chapters11
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
11 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Navigation
- 02INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- 03HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- 04Letter from Mr. Benjamin Vaughan.
- 05Look round the habitable world, how few
- 06On Franklin's Autobiography
- 07Woodrow Wilson
- 08Charles A. Beard & Mary Ritter Beard
- 09Carl Lotus Becker
- 10Theodore Parker
- 11Transcriber's Notes
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