Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . ith liberal hospitality, he left behind him property of valueto his family, accumulated solely by his professional earnings,never having embarked in any pecuniary speculations. Withhim money became the efTcct, though it never seemed to havebeen the motive of his exertions. It may indeed be doubtedwhether any medical man ever rendered more gratuitousservices. He constantly enjoined an attention to the suffer-ings of the indigent upon his private pupils, and to iiis publicclass; quoting the remarks of Dr. Boerhaave that he es-teemed t
Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . ith liberal hospitality, he left behind him property of valueto his family, accumulated solely by his professional earnings,never having embarked in any pecuniary speculations. Withhim money became the efTcct, though it never seemed to havebeen the motive of his exertions. It may indeed be doubtedwhether any medical man ever rendered more gratuitousservices. He constantly enjoined an attention to the suffer-ings of the indigent upon his private pupils, and to iiis publicclass; quoting the remarks of Dr. Boerhaave that he es-teemed the poor his best patients, for God was their pay-master. Payment for medical services was the last objectof consideration with him; when called to assist a person onhis death-bed, one of the injunctions to his son, was to bekind to the poor; and on the day of his funeral, the streetswere lined with thousands, who shed tears of heart-felt sor-row- for the lo?i of their kind and humane benefactor. f>^j iTHENEW YORkI Prr^> - ?? RYf ^»TO«, LtSOX AND. IBIESTJAMIEST 23Jk2T:SIiI2To Engraved, bv J B. Lont^acre, froxn a Paintm^ bv Martm. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Benjamin Franklin, a native of Boston, was borsi on theseventeenth of January, 1706. The paternal branch of liisancestors inhabited the county of Northampton in were proprietors of a small freehold estate near thevillage of Eaton, where, according to the traditions of thatplace, the family had been established for more than threecenturies. They pursued generally some trade, and werevery honourably distinguished in their neighbourhood, forindustry, honesty, and mechanical ingenuity. Ilis father,who was of the persuasion of the Puritans, emigrated in]68ii to the colony of Massachusetts, the common refuge ofthose of his sect, who tied from the persecutions of their na-tive country ; but unaccustomed to agriculture or commerce,the usual occupations of the colonists, he had recourse for aUveliiiood to the business of c
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