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The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for forty-four years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England.
Deborah Debby Franklin (Read) aka Rogers (14 Feb 1708 - 24 Dec 1774) 0 references . Sitelinks. Wikipedia (3 entries) edit. enwiki Deborah Read; frwiki Deborah Franklin;
Mar 24, 2015 · During our conversation, Vivian reveals who Deborah Read Franklin and Sally Franklin Bache were as women and how their lives assisted Benjamin Franklin’s work as a printer, statesman, scientist, and diplomat; what it was like for Deborah Read to be married to Benjamin Franklin; and how Franklin’s politics, as well as the experiences of the ...
Feb 11, 2020 · When I began researching for the upcoming exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, I admittedly knew relatively little about Benjamin Franklin’s wife, Deborah Read Franklin (d. 1774). However, I wanted to include Deborah in the exhibition and so I began researching her life with the intent of figuring out how her story could fit into an exhibition about Benjamin Franklin and science.
Benjamin Franklin had three children. William, born around 1730, was his illegitimate son with an unknown woman. He was raised by Ben and his wife, Deborah. He remained loyal to the British crown and became royal governor of New Jersey. Ben's second son, Francis, was born in 1732. He died of smallpox at age four. Ben's daughter, Sarah, was born ...
Deborah Read. Producer: The Bachelor. Emmy award winning Australian born producer, Deborah Read has lived in LA for over a decade working on large multi-cam live TV productions of such shows as the Emmy's, The Oscars, SU2C, The Grammy's, The Golden Globes and AFI Film Tribute series.
The APS owns the only known portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s wife, Deborah Read Franklin. She lived from 1708 to 1774. Married to Franklin for 44 years, Deborah refused to go to Europe with her husband because she was afraid of the ocean crossings. She stayed in Philadelphia and successfully ran Franklin’s businesses.
