Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

Benjamin Franklin met his future wife, Deborah Read, when he was just a teenager. The two fell in love and promised to get married, but his business took him to England, and Deborah was pressured ...

In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and ...