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Jane Franklin Mecom (March 27, 1712 – May 7, 1794) was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and was considered one of his closest confidants. [2] Mecom and Franklin corresponded for sixty-three years, [3] throughout the course of Ben Franklin's life, and some of their letters survive.
Jane Franklin Mecom. Title Milliner. War & Affiliation Revolutionary War / Patriot. Date of Birth - Death 1712-1794. Born on March 27, 1712, Jane Franklin was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin, who referred to her as his favorite sibling. The sister and brother corresponded regularly during their lives, and Jane eagerly followed her ...
Jane married Edward Mecom (pronounced May-come), a Boston saddler eight years her senior, on July 27, 1727, four months to the day after her fifteenth birthday. She was young for marriage: Jane's six older sisters and. half-sisters married at ages between twenty-one and twenty-eight. But.
19 de dic. de 2013 · Jane Franklin Mecom was the youngest daughter of the Franklin family and the sister of Benjamin Franklin. She kept a book of ages with the dates of births, marriages, and deaths of her family, and corresponded with her brother, who was a famous scientist and statesman.
21 de sept. de 2012 · Jane Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s younger sister and closest confidante, died in 1794. Jill Lepore is writing a book to bring her back. The Harvard historian has spent years, off and on, researching the life of the little-known Mecom, who was the closest person to her iconic brother, exchanging letters with him for 63 years.
Jane Franklin Mecom and the Inspiration for Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist. Blog APS Library. Jane Franklin Mecom and the Inspiration for Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist. Janine Boldt. March 26, 2020. Janine Yorimoto Boldt is the 2018-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. She is lead curator for the 2020... More.
This book, a deft and readable account of the life of Benjamin Franklin's sister Jane Franklin Mecom, is a gift to a public drowning in the perpetual flow of male “founders” history.
