At twelve Ben was apprenticed to his half brother James, a printer of The New England Courant. ... Having thus learned to resist oppression, Benjamin refused to suffer his brother's own domineering qualities and in 1723 ran away to Philadelphia (#1). Soon Franklin found a job as a printer. ... Franklin led the Junto in founding a library (1731), fire company (1736), learned society (1743), college (later the University of Pennsylvania, 1749), and an insurance company and a hospital (1751). ... When the British Parliament passed the Tea Act (1773), that hurt the colonial merchants, Frankli...

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