Franklin

Benjamin, an American statesman; born in Boston, Ma ., Jan. 17, 1706. When 12 years old he was apprenticed to his brother James to learn the printer’s trade. Three years later James started a newspaper called the “ New Englana Ceurapnt.” Benjamin tried his hand as a contributor to the columns of the newspaper, and with such succe that, when his brother was arrested and er for a month by the speaker of the a embly for a too liberal exercise of his critical faculties, the management of the paper was confided to eo The younger brother presum perhaps too much upon his succe ; and for this and other reasons the relations of the two gradually ceased to be harmonious, and Benjamin left Boston, drifting finally to Philadelphia, where he landed with only $1.25 in his vocket. He was fortunate enough to find employment immediately with a printer who had very little knowledge of his busine , and to whom _ therefore Franklin’s expertne and ingenuity E. 60. were not long in proving almost indispensable. An accident secured him the acquaintance of Sir William Keith, the rovernor of the colony, who persuaded him to go over to England for the requisite material to establish himself in the printing busine in Philadelphia, by the promise to advance what money he would need for this purpose, and also to secure to him the printing for the government.