Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.
He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies.
As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.
Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.
In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat."
To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."
Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing the "Pennsylvania Gazette" at the age of 23.
He became wealthy publishing this and "Poor Richard's Almanack", which he authored under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders".
After 1767, he was associated with the "Pennsylvania Chronicle", a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of British policies.
He pioneered and was the first president of Academy and College of Philadelphia which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania.
He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected president in 1769.
Franklin became a national hero in America as an agent for several colonies when he spearheaded an effort in London to have the Parliament of Great Britain repeal the unpopular Stamp Act.
An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations.
His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing shipments of crucial munitions from France.
He was promoted to deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, having been Philadelphia postmaster for many years, and this enabled him to set up the first national communications network.
During the revolution, he became the first United States Postmaster General.
He was active in community affairs and colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs.
From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania.
He initially owned and dealt in slaves but, by the late 1750s, he began arguing against slavery and became an abolitionist.
His life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and his status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored more than two centuries after his death on coinage and the $100 bill, warships, and the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, and corporations, as well as countless cultural references.
Benjamin Franklin Bache
Benjamin Franklin Bache( February 7, 1801 – November 1, 1881) was a surgeon in the United States Navy before and during the Civil War.
He was a great- grandson of the Revolutionary War statesman and author, Benjamin Franklin.
Bache was born in Monticello, Virginia, graduating from Princeton University in 1819, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1823.
He entered the Navy as an assistant surgeon in 1824, and in 1828 was promoted to the rank of surgeon.
From 1838 to 1841 he served as fleet surgeon of the Mediterranean Squadron.
simultaneously serving as professor of natural science at Kenyon College, Ohio.
Bache was in charge of the Philadelphia Naval Asylum from 1845 to 1847.
He then served as fleet surgeon of the Brazil Squadron from 1848 to 1860, and at the Naval Hospital in New York from 1850 to 1854, serving as director of the medical laboratory of the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1855 to 1872.
During the Civil War, the laboratory provided medical supplies to the Union army.
Bache retired on February 1, 1868, and in 1871 was appointed medical director with rank of Commodore.
Commodore Bache died at his home on 283 Henry Street, New York, after a short illness on November 1, 1881.
Andrey Vilkitsky
Andrey Ippolitovich Vilkitsky  was a Russian hydrographer and surveyor.
He was born in the Minsk Governorate.
His son, Boris Vilkitsky followed up his father's work; the Vilkitsky Islands are named after him.
David Shute
David Shute is a British journalist, best known for his work at the BBC.
Emanuel Glicen Romano
Emanuel Glicen Romano or Emanuel Glicenstein( 1897 – 1984) was a painter born in Italy.
He emigrated to America and spent some time in Safed in Israel.
where he organised a museum for his father's work.
Louis Franklin Bache
Louis Franklin Bache (7 October 1779 – 4 October 1818) was the son of Richard Bache and Sarah Franklin Bache, the daughter of the American statesman Benjamin Franklin and his wife Deborah Read.
Bache served as a lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania State Militia during the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.
Bache was the commander of a detachment of 351 men in the Pennsylvania State Militia Volunteers which was assigned by Pennsylvania Governor Simon Snyder to defend the City of Philadelphia against the British in the War of 1812.
In October 1814, Lt. Col. Bache refused to submit to federal military takeover of his Pennsylvania State Militia detachment because his soldiers originally joined the state militia pursuant to a later-disputed agreement with U.S. Brigadier General Joseph Bloomfield that Bache's soldiers would always serve under their state (and not federal) militia officers.
Standing firm on principle, Bache and his five subordinate officers were arrested.
Bache was court-martialed and was dismissed from U.S. military service.
The military court decided not to punish Bache further because the court believed Bache's closing arguments...that he acted in good faith based upon Governor Snyder's orders, his motives were pure, and that trust was placed in him by his soldiers and the soldiers' parents who allowed their sons to volunteer only under the command of trusted state militia officers.
The Bache court-martial case and the related U.S. Supreme Court case of "United States v. Peters" has been the subject of historical discussion regarding federal-state relations and balance of power.
Bache married Margaret Riley (1781–1806) in 1802.
They had two children together:
Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist)
Benjamin Franklin
Bache( August 12, 1769 – September 10, 1798) was an American journalist, printer and publisher.
He founded the" Philadelphia Aurora", a newspaper that supported Jeffersonian philosophy.
He frequently attacked the Federalist political leaders, including Presidents George Washington and John Adams, and historian Gordon S. Wood wrote that" no editor did more to politicize the press in the 1790s."
His paper's heated attacks are thought to have contributed to passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts by the 5th United States Congress and signed by President John Adams in 1798.
The grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Bache was often referred to as" Lightning Rod Junior" after his famous grandfather's experiment.
The son of Sarah Franklin and Richard Bache, he died at 29 in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798.
Christopher Shinn
Christopher Shinn is an American playwright.
His play" Dying City"( 2006) was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and" Where Do We Live"( 2004) won the 2005 Obie Award, Playwriting.
Sarah Franklin Bache
Sarah "Sally" Franklin Bache (September 11, 1743 – October 5, 1808) was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Reed.
She was a leader in relief work during the American Revolutionary War and frequently served as her father's political hostess, like her mother before her death in 1774.
Sarah was also an important leader for women in the pro-independence effort in Philadelphia.
She was an active member of the community until her death in 1808.
Richard Bache Jr.
Richard Franklin Bache, also known as Richard Bache Jr.( 1784 – 1848), was a military and political official in the Republic and state of Texas.
He assisted in drafting the Texas Constitution of 1845, the first of its five state constitutions.

Question: Where does Sarah Franklin Bache's father work at?
Answer: University of Pennsylvania