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Originally Posted by crich70
And Ben Franklin was at least associated with one of the first libraries here in the U.S. I believe.
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He's famous for a book collection. See Carnegie:
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A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
There are a lot of US Libraries named after Benjamin Franklin, but I think he, himself, only founded one.
http://www.benjamin-franklin-history...nding-library/
The Franklin Mint (no connection really to Ben Franklin) published books from the 1970s for nearly 30 years.