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What college or university did Benjamin Franklin found?

Question #105312. Asked by star_gazer.
Last updated Nov 30 2016.

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Ben Franklin, in 1749, founded a small academy that would later become the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school today.

link https://edblogs.columbia.edu/histx3570-001-2014-1/2014/02/10/whitefield-franklin-and-the-early-history-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania/


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Response last updated by gtho4 on Nov 30 2016.
May 04 2009, 4:32 PM
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