Excerpt from A Little Journey to the Home of Benjamin Franklin: American Statesman That Benjamin Franklin was born, Pennsylvania's most distinguished citizen and a man who was indispensable to the establishment of these United States of America. 41 In point of all-round development, Frank lin must stand as our foremost American. We know of no one who ever lived a busier life, a happier life, a life more useful to others than Poor Richard. He is our greatest example of thrift. He wrote more on it and wrote better than any other man we know. He became for his day the richest man in America - richest not only in money, but inhealth, brains, sanity, good-cheer, inter national influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.