Most Americans remember Benjamin Franklin as a flyer of kites in storms. His face is on a hundred-dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a huge family. He was the fifteenth child in the Franklin House. He had seventeen brothers and sisters. Benjamin Franklin was never the president, but he’s one of the founding fathers of the United States. A founding father is someone who helped start our country. His dad worked as a businessperson. Benjamin Franklin was an accomplished writer, printer, inventor, diplomat, and a scientist. Young Franklin loved to read. When Benjamin Franklin was eight, his dad sent him to the south grammar school. After several months, Josiah (Benjamin Franklin dad) couldn’t afford it and took Benjamin Franklin out. Soon Benjamin Franklin was back in school but this time he was in a different school. He finished in 1716 and never went to school again. His family had little money so he went to school every two years. By the age of fifteen Ben was writing articles for his brother James’ newspaper the New England Courant. At seventeen, he traveled to Philadelphia, then London to complete his training as a printer. After returning to Philadelphia a few years later he took over a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Gazette. Over the next few decades Benjamin Franklin wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack, a best selling collection of witty sayings, poems, and information about weather, astronomy, and astrology. On September 1, 1730 he married Deborah Read. In 1737 he got the job as a postman. He invented bifocals and the Franklin stove. He was one of the five members of the Declaration Committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence and he went to France at the start of the Revolutionary War to get support for the American colonies. In France, Benjamin Franklin gained his reputation for wearing a coonskin cap. In 1783 the war ended and Benjamin Franklin helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris with England. Later he served in the Constitutional Convention where the US Constitution was drafted. Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia April 17, 1790.