2. He Assumed a False Identity When He Was Young When he was young, Benjamin Franklin was an apprentice to his brother, James, who owned a print shop and the New-England Courant. Benjamin showed ...

FRANKLIN, THE APOSTLE OF MODERN TIMES ... Silence Dogood, to his brother’s New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to ...

THE PAPERS OF BENJAMIN ... Franklin to the age of 28, but these were the spawning years of his genius. He served his apprenticeship as a printer, journeyed to England and back, published the New ...