Josiah Franklin Sr. (December 23, 1657 – January 16, 1745) was an English businessman and the father of Benjamin Franklin. Born in the village of Ecton...

Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, soaper, and candlemaker. Josiah Franklin was born at Ecton...

marriage. Mecom was the youngest of ten children to Josiah Franklin's second wife, Abiah Folger. Jane Franklin was born at Blue Ball house on Union Street in...

Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read...

and widower Josiah Franklin and they had 10 children. She raised her children with the Presbyterian religious tradition. Abiah and Josiah's children included...

Benjamin Franklin and the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler and businessman from Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, and Abiah Folger Franklin, who came...

was born there. She married Boston candle-maker Josiah Franklin and they had a son, Benjamin Franklin. Her husband died in 1690, and she died in 1704...

and relatives of Benjamin Franklin who was born in Boston and is buried in Philadelphia. Franklin's father was Josiah Franklin, originally from Ecton, Northamptonshire...

British naval architect Josiah Francis (disambiguation), multiple people Josiah Franklin (1657–1745), English businessman Josiah Frederick Fraser (1870–1942)...

informing Benjamin Franklin; he intended as a reward for Benjamin's role and a move to weaken the Penn faction. He replaced Josiah Hardy, a merchant and...

in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant...

Benjamin Franklin is a 2002 American documentary television series about United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin which premiered November 19–20...

by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was after...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have...

1669, the last of whom, Abiah Folger, married Josiah Franklin, and was the mother of Benjamin Franklin. At the Vineyard, Folger supported himself by teaching...

September 25 the Continental Congress ordered commissioners, led by Benjamin Franklin, to seek a treaty with France based upon Adams draft treaty that had later...

"Lafayette Arrives", no lines William Dawes Josiah Franklin – appears in "In Praise of Ben", no lines James Franklin Moses Michael Hays Edward Jenner Sybil...

America in 1776. It is often illustrated with Franklin's famous snake cartoon Join, or Die. Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite the colonies exceeded the scope...

Pennsylvania. Founded in 1749 by a group of local notables that included Benjamin Franklin, the Academy of Philadelphia began as a private secondary school, occupying...

The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science...

Society) and was incorporated in 1789. At some point after 1785, Benjamin Franklin was elected as the organization's president. The society asked him to bring...

Postmaster-General of the American Post Office. He also was the son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin. Bache was born on September 12, 1737, in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire...

Ben Franklin in Paris is a musical with a book and lyrics by Sidney Michaels, and music by Mark Sandrich, Jr. with two songs contributed by Jerry Herman...

the lamps and maintaining them. As early as the 1750s, inventor Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia introduced innovations in oil lamp design, such as using...

Col. Josiah Quincy I (1710–1784) was an American merchant, planter, soldier, and politician. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy III and Dorothy Flynt...

The second USS Franklin of the United States Navy was an 8-gun brig. She was named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Built at Philadelphia in 1795...

Allerton (1621), Mayflower passenger Anne Child (1689), first wife of Josiah Franklin Eliza Marble (1719), wife of Edward Low Mary Phillips (1737), daughter...

of the most influential and responsible members of Congress: Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Robert Livingston, John Dickinson, Thomas Willing, Thomas...

secondary works by or about Benjamin Franklin, one of the principal Founding Fathers of the United States. Works about Franklin have been consistently published...

grandfather, Josiah Franklin, at the corner of Union and Hanover streets in Boston. His uncle, Benjamin Franklin, youngest son of Josiah Franklin, was then...