(Sharon Brody/WBUR) Thus, this historic milestone — the idea of America's first public library — was born. But hmm, what books to include? Benjamin Franklin turned to a good friend for an assist.

When the town of Franklin was incorporated in 1778, the name was changed from Exeter to Franklin in honor of founding father Benjamin ... established the first public library in the United States.

This summer, one of our Founding Fathers will be visiting Gering. Come see Benjamin Franklin on Friday, June 27 at 7 p.m. in the Gering Civic Plaza. Character actor Larry ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ... free and open to the public. Some of its earliest holdings, such as Franklin’s original copy of Logic, or, the Art ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America ... a self-improvement society; of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first subscription library in North ...

The $100 bill has featured Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father ... He also founded the first public library and the University of Pennsylvania. Though he appears on the $100 bill, he was never ...

In doing so, Franklin was instrumental in the establishment of institutions like the first public lending library ... some faults of the first." - Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Franklin ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John ... that gave birth to America. From the first, Franklin’s “excellence as a legislator ...