Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

Benjamin Franklin met his future wife, Deborah Read ... His reasoning was that Pennsylvania was under the proprietorship of the Penn family. Thus, the Penn family had the legal ability to overturn ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin ... of the American Republic. But Franklin's life was full of contradictions, and his success came at a cost. Achievements as ...