Benjamin Franklin Essay

Benjamin Franklin Essay
HM201 Billy J Billingsley

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston Massachusetts to a poor candle maker. He had 15 siblings, in which all were apprentices for different trades. All except Benjamin, his father had dedicated his son “as the Tithe of his sons to the service to the Church”(327). Unfortunately, the cost of this was too much and Benjamin’s father placed him in another school. Benjamin worked a while with his father as a candle maker. He did not like this profession very much and expressed that he was ready to spread his wings. His father saw this and was not very pleased. Back in those days, families worked together within the family business. Generation after generation after generation of families ran the same business. For example, the Colt family made pistols. The Blacksmith family did metal work. Doing otherwise was definitely out of the norm and looked down upon. But, Benjamin had “a hankering for the sea”(330) and sti...