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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Francis_Folger_FranklinFrancis Folger Franklin - Wikipedia

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   Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died shortly thereafter.

2. www.nytimes.com › 2011/03/01 › healthBenjamin Franklin, Smallpox Vaccine Advocate - The New York Times

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   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...

3. founders.archives.gov › documents › FranklinOn the Death of His Son, 30 December 1736 - Founders Online

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   Jan 2, 2002 · Francis Folger Franklin, born Oct. 20, 1732, died of smallpox Nov. 21, 1736. BF regretted to the end of his life, he wrote in his autobiography, that he had not had the boy inoculated.

4. www.washingtonpost.com › outlook › 2022/01/14Benjamin Franklin championed childhood inoculation against ...

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   Jan 14, 2022 · Franklin and his wife, Deborah, were evidently immune, either from variolation or from having survived smallpox. But their 4-year-old son, Francis Folger Franklin, was not.

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   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...

6. www.ushistory.org › franklin › infoTimeline of Benjamin Franklin's Life - US History

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   January 17. Born in Boston, the youngest son of Josiah and Abiah (Folger) Franklin. (January 6, 1705 by "Old Style" reckoning). 1715. Final formal year of schooling. Heard Increase Mather preach. 1717. Begins reading Plutarch, Defoe, and Cotton Mather. Invents a pair of swim fins for his hands.

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   How old was Francis Folger Franklin when he died?

   • Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) [a] was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read . In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died shortly thereafter.

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   Who was Francis Folger Franklin?

   • Francis Folger Franklin was born on October 20, 1732, [b] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (then a colony in British America ). He was the oldest legitimate child of Benjamin Franklin, then the publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, and Deborah Read.

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   Did Francis Folger Franklin have smallpox?

   • [Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.] 2 . Francis Folger Franklin, born Oct. 20, 1732, died of smallpox Nov. 21, 1736. BF regretted to the end of his life, he wrote in his autobiography, that he had not had the boy inoculated.

   On the Death of His Son, 30 December 1736 - Founders Online

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   What church did Francis Folger Franklin attend?

   • Francis Folger Franklin is baptized at the Anglican Christ Church. Deborah attends this church, while Benjamin had stopped attending a Presbyterian church the year before. Buy property on Philadelphia's Market Street. Eventually he will put together several lots of land on Market Street. These will house his print shop and retail space.

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8. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleHow the American Revolution estranged Ben Franklin and his ...

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   Jun 12, 2024 · By Parissa DJangi. June 12, 2024. To generations of Americans, Benjamin Franklin is a Founding Father. But to William Franklin, his only surviving son, he was simply “father.” The two men had...