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Benjamin Franklin

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN(1706 - 1790) -- * -- Printer, author, inventor, diplomat, philanthropist, statesman, and scientist. The eighteenth cen-tury's most illustrious Pennsylvanian built a house in...

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
(1706 - 1790)

-- * --

Printer, author, inventor, 
diplomat, philanthropist, 
statesman, and scientist. 
The eighteenth cen-
tury's most illustrious 
Pennsylvanian built a 
house in Franklin Court 
starting in 1763, and 
here he lived the last  
five years of his life.

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