The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-14

A NutsheIl-vlew of Frankiin's Co., reer. youngest son, and the fifteenth child of seventeen.
 i71s Taken from school to help his candle ma king father.
 171S Apprenticed to his brother
 T was resolved I should not be bred to divinity, and my bookish inelina- tions determined my father to make me
 f722 Began secret contributions in the .'courant." signing silence Do- I72s (oct) Ran away to Philadelphia, where he became a journeyman printer. 172b-26 First visit to London, print ing while there his Liberty and Me- cessity."
 172s Set up business of his own lPhila.):.. buying The "Pennsyivania I7so (sept. D Married Deborah Read. daughter of his landlord
 1731 Founded a debating society .'The Junto, and the Philadelphia Li- i732 Began Poor Richards Alma nae" (Richard Saunders, Philomath.") ) 17s4 Suggested organised u ire compa- 17s6 Elected clerk of the Philadelphia iTs7 Made postmaster of Philadel- i7l2 Invented 'an open stove for the better warming of rooms"
 1743 Developed the American Philo- sophicaI Society out of ''The Junto."
 l74g Retired from business. adelphia, later the University of Penn i759 Discovered the identity of light ming and electricity. and invented the lightning rod. There are no bounds to the force man may raise and use in an electrical way"
 lT63 Made Deputy Postmaster Gen. eral of the colonies. elected to mem bership in the Royal Society (London), and given the Copley Medal.
 1T54 As delegate from Pennsylvania to the Colonial Conference at Albany, brought forward the first coherent 1 eral union of the thirteen colonies.
 1756 Chosen Colonel of a regiment or volunteer militia of his own. raising. 1757-s2 Successful political mission 1762 Given the degrees of ILL. D. by Edinburgh and Oxford Universities.
 1762 Introduced the yellow willow in- to this country.
 1764-75 As Colonial Agent in England of Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Geor- gia and New Jersey, opposed the pass Ing of the Stamp Act, and assisted In 1774 Dismissed by the Crown from his post of Deputy Postmaster Gener- 1774 (Dec. ls) Death of Deborah ITS (May 5 welcomed home to Philadelphia.
 1775 Elected member of the Con- tinental Congress
 sherman. and Livingston on a com. mittee to draw up the Declaration of Independence, and signed that docu- met.
 "we must all hang together or we shall hang separately"
 1776 (Dec. 21) Landed in France.
 TIT Issued (by authority of Con- gress) commissions tU foreign naval TITS (Feb. s) Obtained the Treaty of Agreement with France, under which that country was pledged to assist the colonies with men and money. l7s2 (Nov. 30) With Jay and Adams signed the prelIminaries of the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain.
 1TS3 Sept. g The definitive Treaty of Peace with England) signed in i7S5 (sept) Sailed again for America. 17s5-sS-s7 President of Pennsylvan- 17s7 Delegate to the Constitutional 17ss Finished his .'Autobiography." !" (Fitst published In 1S17)
 17s0 (Feb. 12) Petitioned Congress to abolish the slave trade. and enamel. pate all slaves held in this ciuntry.
 1790 (April ID Died in Philadelphia, aged S4 years and 3 months.
 His self-written epitaph (which however, was never used)-
 The body of
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, printer, it's contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gliding lies here, food for worms; But the work shall not be lost; for 1t will as he believed appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, re- vised and corrected by the AUTHOR.