Later he bought Meredith's share and found himself in business alone. A few months after they landed, however, Denham died, and Keimer rehired Franklin as his manager.Įventually Franklin set up a printing shop with one of the men he had trained at Keimer's, Hugh Meredith. But he returned home when a merchant named Denham offered him a good job as clerk and manager of Denham's Philadelphia store. He therefore was forced to spend several months working in a London printing house. Assuming that Keith had placed letters of credit for him on board his ship, Franklin sailed for England to purchase his printing equipment, only to find that no such letters had been written. Governor Keith of Pennsylvania was impressed with Franklin and offered to set him up in business. Looking for work, he went first to New York and then to Philadelphia, where he was hired by Samuel Keimer. He and James often disagreed, and finally Benjamin quit before his contract had expired. Because he disliked his father's trade but loved reading, he was apprenticed at the age of 12 to his brother James, a printer.
Written in Franklin’s signature clear prose style, the autobiography, which Franklin called his memoir, tells of his rise to manhood, first in Boston, where he was apprenticed to his brother, and then in Philadelphia, where his industry, frugality, integrity, and erudite intelligence helped him rise to prosperity and importance in the community.īenjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an extraordinary man-America’s original Renaissance man, skilled not only in politics but also in writing and science, an inventor and publisher, on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, instrumental in developing America’s first libraries and fire departments, and a strong advocate (in voice and in example) for the abolition of slavery. His story is one that every American student should read.Benjamin Franklin was the youngest son and 15th of 17 children of Josiah Franklin, a soap and candle maker who had immigrated to Boston from Northamptonshire, England. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is, by any reckoning, among the most extraordinary documents of the New World. Challenging vocabulary is defined at the bottom of each page. The MCT edition of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is reproduced in its entirety and includes Michael’s “language illustrations”-close-ups of poetic techniques, four-level analyses of interesting grammar, and comments about writing strategies.
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