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Deborah Franklin

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Deborah Franklin

First appearance	A Lesson in Electricity
In-story stats
Known ability	None
Formal name	Deborah Read
Gender
Date of marriage	1730
Home	Philadelphia, PA
Residence	The Franklins' home
Significant other	Benjamin Franklin
Ward	William Franklin

Deborah Franklin is the wife of one of America's Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin.

1 Character History
- 1.1 Graphic Novel:A Lesson in Electricity
2 Heroes Evolutions
3 Trivia
4 See Also
5 External Links

Character History

Graphic Novel:A Lesson in Electricity

One night in 1752, Deborah Franklin wakes her husband at the sound of his bells, which would ring when lightning struck his lightning rod, and asks Benjamin if he could invent a quieter way to perform his experiment.

Several nights later, when Benjamin and his son prepare to leave home to perform an electrical experiment, Deborah asks where the two are going on such a stormy night. Benjamin replies that they are headed to fly a kite.

Heroes Evolutions

According to the repository page at yamagatofellowship.org, Deborah married Benjamin Franklin in 1730.

Trivia

In real life, Deborah was born on Valentine's Day, 1708. She died on Christmas Eve, 1774. Also, Deborah was never formally married to Benjamin but they began a common-law marriage in 1730.
The real-life William Franklin is Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son. Though Deborah was not William's mother, she raised him as her own. After William joined their family in 1731, Deborah and Benjamin had two children of their own: Francis Folger Franklin (who died of smallpox at age four) and Sarah Franklin Bache.