"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten," he said in "Poor Richard's Almanack," "either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin ...

Over 35 years of marriage, Benjamin Franklin had indirectly praised Deborah’s work ethic and common sense through “wife” characters in his Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard’s Almanac.

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... 1706, to a poor English chandler (a candle and soap maker) living in Boston, Franklin was the 15th of 17 children.