Benjamin Franklin was the chairman.

" Franklin would have been the happiest man in Europe at the conclusion of peace negotiations, but for his increasing bodily infirmities, especially the gout, from which at times he suffered excruciating agonies.

Only four American periodicals had been established when, in 1729, Benjamin Franklin, who was already printer to the Pennsylvania Assembly, became proprietor and editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette.

Franklin was also a fine swimmer.

Benjamin Franklin was not only a printer, politician, and statesman, he was the first scientist of America.

Of this assembly, in which sat Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Dickinson, Livingstone, Ellsworth, Sherman, and other great men, Franklin was the Nestor, in wisdom as well as years.

There was a general post, and Benjamin Franklin was deputy postmaster-general for the northern district of the colonies.

Sir John Franklin was a midshipman with Captain Flinders when he discovered this part of Australia.)

Benjamin Franklin was a Whig; his son, Sir William Franklin, was a Tory.

They say that Benjamin Franklin was once a guest here.

Benjamin Franklin was a proud and happy boy.

"Sir," replied Cousin Benedict, dryly, "learn that Sir John Franklin made a scruple of killing the smallest insect, be it a mosquito, whose attacks are otherwise formidable as those of a flea; and meanwhile you will not hesitate to allow, that Sir John Franklin was a seaman who was as good as the next.

Benjamin Franklin was the fifteenth child of a poor tallow chandler.

Dr. Franklin, writing of the books that he bought in his boyhood says:'My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

Franklin was the oldest member, being then eighty-one; Dayton, the youngest, being twenty-seven.