Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln, a book for ...
Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln, a book for ...
Baldwin, James, 1841-1925
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She said that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. Digitized by Google THE STORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IO9 XIII. — Franklin's Services to the Colonies. And so, as you have seen, Benjamin Franklin became in time one of the foremost men in our country. In 1753, when he was forty-five years old, he' was made deputy postmaster - general for America. He was to have a salary of about $3,000 a year, and was to pay his own assistants. People wer...e astonished when he proposed to have the mail carried regularly once every week between New York and Boston. Letters starting from Philadelphia on Monday morning would reach Boston the next Saturday night. This was thought to be a wonderful and almost impossible feat. But nowadays, letters leaving Philadelphia at midnight are read at the breakfast table in Boston the next morning. At that time there were not seventy post-offices in the whole country. There are now more than seventy thousand. Digitized by Google I lO THE STORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Benjamin Franklin held the office of deputy postmaster-general for the American colonies for twenty-one years.
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