![]() She and her brother wrote to each other all their lives: they were each other’s dearest friends. ![]() ![]() At 15, she married: she was probably pregnant, as were, at the time, a third of all brides. Against poverty and ignorance, Franklin prevailed his sister did not.Īt 17, he ran away from home. Their lives tell an 18th-century tale of two Americas. Benny went to school for just two years Jenny never went at all. Massachusetts’ Poor Law required teaching boys to write the mandate for girls ended at reading. Their father was a Boston candle-maker, scraping by. Nowhere on any legal tender is his sister Jane, the youngest of seven daughters she never traveled the way to wealth. It’s called “The Path to Prosperity,” a nod to an essay Benjamin Franklin once wrote, called “The Way to Wealth.”įranklin, who’s on the $100 bill, was the youngest of 10 sons. Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, announced his party’s new economic plan this month. THE House Budget Committee chairman, Paul D. ![]()
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