Printer and journalist, born in Philadelphia on the 12th of August 1769; died there on the 10th of September 1798; grandson of Benjamin Franklin; went to Paris with his grandfather, and learned printing and type-founding in the establishment of the brothers Didot. Returning to America in 1790, he published the General Advertiser, afterward called the Aurora, which was one of the most influential journals of the time, and was opposed to the administrations of Presidents Washington and Adams.
