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Francis Folger Franklin, Benjamin and Deborah’s first child together, was born in 1732. His proud and doting parents called him “Franky.”
Nov 2, 2021 · It came from painful first-hand experience; as a 30-year-old father, Benjamin Franklin lost the youngest of his two sons, Francis Folger Franklin, to smallpox on Nov. 21, 1736, in...
Around the time they married Franklin took custody of an illegitimate child, William. The name of the mother remains a mystery. The couple had two children. The first was Francis Folger Franklin born October 1732. The second, Sarah Franklin born in 1743. In 1736 Francis, who was 4 years old, died from small pox. He had not been inoculated.
Feb 28, 2011 · In 1774, to counter this inequity, Franklin established the Society for Inoculating the Poor Gratis. Haunting these activities was a very personal ghost: that of Francis Folger Franklin, the...
Francis Folger (Franky) Franklin. 1732 - 1736. BF's first child with common-law wife Deborah. Died at age four from smallpox. Major international interactive exhibition and Philadelphia city-wide celebration honoring genius and wit of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin on his three-hundred-year birthday anniversary.
Nov 3, 2021 · Franklin had first hand experience on the topic after losing his 4-year-old son Francis "Franky" Folger to smallpox on November 21, 1736. The Founding Father's centuries-old premonitory...
Nov 9, 2009 · Franklin and Read had a son, Francis Folger Franklin (1732-36), who died of smallpox at age 4, and a daughter, Sarah Franklin Bache (1743-1808). Franklin had another son, William Franklin (c....
