English American Masters #1-3
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- at 13, he was apprenticed as a printer by his brother
- Benjamin Franklin
- published observations on electricity in 1751
- Benjamin Franklin
- commiteeman of the declaration of independance
- Benjamin Franklin
- delegate from PA to the executive council
- Benjamin Franklin
- died in 1790 at the age of 84, 20,000 attended his funeral
- Benjamin Franklin
- born into a large family on April 3, 1783 in New York, the youngest of 11 children
- Washington Irving
- published the sketch book undr the pseudonym of geoffrey crayon
- Washington Irving
- born in the year 1706 in the city of boston, the tenth son of seventeen children
- Benjamin Franklin
- Wrote the Pennslyvania Gazette in Philadelphia
- Benjamin Franklin
- statesman who traveled to england
- Benjamin Franklin
- ambassador to France
- Benjamin Franklin
- wrote tales of a traveler which contained the devil and tom walker
- Washington Irving
- wrote a biography of christopher columbus
- Washington Irving
- hated his father's business of making soap and candles
- Benjamin Franklin
- Invented the lightning rod, founded the first public library,established fire department and fire insurance, invented bifocals and the Franklin stove
- Benjamin Franklin
- delegate to the Second Cotinental Congress
- Benjamin Franklin
- signed treaty of paris which ended the revolutionary war
- Benjamin Franklin
- wrote the histoory of new york
- Washington Irving
- given a gold medal by Royal society of literature in england
- Washington Irving
- recieved a D>C>L from oxford university
- Washington Irving
- wrote the tour on the prairies, based on the spawling frontier
- Washington Irving
- moved to the estate of Sunnytide in 1835
- Washington Irving
- refused the positions of secretary to the navy and mayor of new york
- Washington Irving
- offered to be ambassador to spain
- Washington Irving
- died november 28, 1859
- Washington Irving
- born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- grandfather, John Hathorne was a judge during the Salm witchcraft trails
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- wrote mosses from an old manse in 1846
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- wrote the scarlet letter, the story of an adulterous affair between Hester Brynne and Author Dimmesdale
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- befriended herman melville
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- in 1852 published the blithedale romance, and the life of franklin pierce
- Nathaniel Hawthorne