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Ben was born in Boston, MA
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Ben worked in his fathers candle shop
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he became an apprentice for his brother James, a printer.
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he ran away to philadelphia
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he married Deborah Read.
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he helped start a school that became the University of Pennsylvania.
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he proved that lightning was a form of electricity.
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he helped Thomas Jefferson write the Decloration of Independence.
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he sined the United States Constitution.
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Ben died.