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Franklin’s life demonstrates that he did not allow certain things become an obstacle on his way to success: Although he was born a rather ordinary child to rather ordinary parents, he achieved a measure of success in his life through hard work. Franklin was born in 1706, the youngest son of Josiah Franklin, a soap and candle maker. At age of 12, he was apprenticed into the printing trade under his older brother James. Franklin did not like and enjoy his brother’s supervision, and left to work for a printer in Philadelphia after a few years. On the other hand, he continued his electricity experiments resulted in discovering lightening rod. He became an ardent Revolutionary and helped to finance activities of the Continental