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
- Length67,155 words · 4h 29m of reading
- Chapters12
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
12 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. Abel James, with Notes of my Life (received in Paris).
- 05Letter from Mr. Benjamin Vaughan.
- 06Look round the habitable world, how few
- 07On Franklin's Autobiography
- 08Woodrow Wilson
- 09Charles A. Beard & Mary Ritter Beard
- 10Carl Lotus Becker
- 11Theodore Parker
- 12Transcriber's Notes
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