The True Benjamin Franklin
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The True Benjamin Franklin is by Sydney George Fisher, author of Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times, The Making of Pennsylvania and The Evolution of the Constitution. The preface to the third edition says that since the appearance of the first edition there has been some discussion of the question whether Mrs. Foxcroft was really Franklin's daughter, and that an appendix goes fully into this question. The text says Franklin became a vegetarian when only fifteen years old and apprenticed in the printing-office of his brother in Boston, in the year 1721.
The text says libraries sprang up in New England and the South, and they may have been suggested by the Philadelphia Library which Franklin founded. The text says Franklin was in favor of only one House of Congress, with the representation in it proportioned to population.
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- Sydney George Fisher
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- English
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