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Becoming Ben Franklin

How a Candle-maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
Nov 29, 2014
In 1732, Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a run-away apprentice, alone and friendless, but returning there 62 years later, he was greeted with a cheering crowd, bells, and cannons, as a statesman, author, and scientist, and one of the leading figures of the American Revolution. Illus. with art of the era.