Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . egree of fromOxford and Edinburghin 1762. Harvard andYale colleges had pre-viously conferred uponhim the degree of Mas-ter of Arts. Franklin was for many years Independence; and in the fall of 1776 hea member of the Assembly and advocated was sent as ambassador to France, asthe rights of the people in opposition to the colleague of Silas Deane and Arthurthe claims of the proprietaries; and in Lee. To him was chiefly due the success-1764 he was sent to England as agent of fu
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . egree of fromOxford and Edinburghin 1762. Harvard andYale colleges had pre-viously conferred uponhim the degree of Mas-ter of Arts. Franklin was for many years Independence; and in the fall of 1776 hea member of the Assembly and advocated was sent as ambassador to France, asthe rights of the people in opposition to the colleague of Silas Deane and Arthurthe claims of the proprietaries; and in Lee. To him was chiefly due the success-1764 he was sent to England as agent of ful negotiation of the treaty of alliancethe colonial legislature, in which capacity with France, and he continued to repre-he afterwards acted for several other colo- sent his country there until 1785, whennies. His representation to the British ho returned home. While he was inministry, in 1765-66, of the temper of the France, and residing at Passy in 1777, aAmericans on the subject of taxation by medallion likeness of him was madeParliament did much in effecting the re- in the red clay of that region. The 419. BENJAUIN FRANKLIN. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN for the defence of the prov-ince in 1744; and was colo-nel of a regiment, and builtforts for the defence of thefrontiers in 1755. He wasthe inventor of the Fbank-LiN Stove (g. v.), which inmodified forms is still in was also the inventor ofthe lightning-rod. Franklinleft two children, a son, Will-iam, and a daughter. Hedied in Philadelphia, Pa.,April 17, 1790. In 1752 the PennsylvaniaAssembly, yielding to theurgency of public affairs inthe midst of war, voted alevy of $500,000 without in-sisting upon their claim totax the proprietary protested that they didit through compulsion; andthey sent Franklin to Eng-land as their agent to urgetheir complaint against theproprietaries. This was hisfirst mission abroad. At the beginning of theFrench and Indian War(1754) the colonists, as wellas the royal governors, sawthe ne
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