Show FRANKLIN was born january IT 17 1106 1706 and wa 4 the fifteenth of seventeen children chil dien all of whom as lio lie relates lived to bo be married and lie ho makes the remark that ho be was the young youngest gest son of tile the youngest t son for five fa generations back when very young 0 his father intended him for the church which plan was relinquished as beino being 6 too expensive at ten years old he was taken home to assist his father in the business of tallow chand ler and soap boiler cutting wicks filling moulds and going of errands were ivere for two years the chief employ inerio of the future mentor of america at twelve years of age 1 I lie ho was apprenticed to his brother a printer who treated d him with such harshness that on obtaining a discharge lie ho left his service and traveled to philadelphia where lie he arrived almost penniless but filed wi with ith an independent perseverance of spirit and a conf confidence idenie in his own resources that enabled him to surmount every difficulty sauntering through tile the selects with his pockets stuffed with shuts ts and stockings and a 1011 loll of bread under each arm lie avide in the opinion of miss mi ss keado llis stilt ire wife who wasa standing at heNda theis door as lip passed a figure figura 11 IV who would x |