Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

Of the "Founding Fathers," Benjamin Franklin alone signed ... Before this goal could be achieved, however, Franklin died on April 17, 1790. The nation, and particularly Philadelphia, mourned ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... to me every enjoyment,” Jane wrote about Benjamin after his death in 1790, “Whatever other pleasures were, as they mostly took their rise from ...

This plain suit would have created a stark contrast between Franklin and those in the elaborate dress typical of the opulent ...

Benjamin Franklin is a crucial figure in the history ... petition to Congress shortly before his death at age 84 in 1790, and he also included a provision in his will that his daughter had to ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

In December 1776, nearly six months after the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from British rule, 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin landed on the shores of France with two of his grandsons, ...

But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left a small sum of money to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia with one condition: That they not spend it ...