Benjamin Franklin ; his life
By: written by himself ; edited for school use with notes and a continuation of his life by D. H. Montgomery
Series: Home and school library
Publisher: Ginn & Company
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Notes: Access to portions of this material may be restricted.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Franklin's autobiography (1706-57). Franklin's ancestry, parentage, and youth; title: Franklin goes to Philadelphia; title: Franklin visits Boston, and goes to England; title: Franklin returns to Philadelphia, and sets up business for himself; title: Franklin establishes the Junto; title: Franklin begins the publication of The Pennsylvania gazette; title: Franklin's plan of life; title: Franklin chosen clerk of the legislature, and appointed Deputy Postmaster-General; title: Franklin chosen a member of the legislature; title: Franklin appointed Postmaster-General ; He draws up a plan for a union of the colonies; title: Franklin establishes the first permanent militia company in the colonies; title: Franklin's electrical experiments; title: Franklin appointed agent to represent the colony in England; title: pt. 2. Continuation of Franklin's life, from 1757 to his death in 1790. Franklin's first mission to England, 1757-1762; title: Franklin's two years' work at home, 1762-1764; title: Franklin's second mission to England, 1764-1775; title: Franklin and the beginning of the revolution, May 5, 1775 to Nov. 21, 1776; title: Franklin's mission to France, 1776-1785; title: Franklin and the constitution, 1785-1787; title: "The last of earth," 1787 to April 17, 1790.