Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 249
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Bv NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. … I N the year 1716, or aboutthat period, a boy usedto be seen in the streetsof Boston who wasknown among his school-fellows and playmates by thename of Ben Franklin. Benwas born in 1706; so that hewas now about ten years old.His father, who had come overfrom England, was a soapboiler and tallow…
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