Profile
Ann Smith Franklin
America's First Woman Newspaper Editor + First Woman To Write An Almanac + the First Woman Inducted Into the University of Rhode Island's Journalism Hall of Fame
Female
Born
Oct 2, 1696
Hometown
Boston
Died
Apr 16, 1763
Death Place
Newport, Rhode Is...
Other Names
Smith, Ann
Ethnicity
American
Ann Smith Franklin was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin. She published the Newport, Rhode Island Mercury, printed an almanac series, and printed… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1696
Birth
Born on October 2, 1696.
TWENTIES
Ann was born in Boston to Samuel and Anna Smith. She married James Franklin in Boston on February 4, 1723.
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THIRTIES
1736
39 Years Old
In 1736, Ann petitioned the General Assembly of Rhode Island, seeking printing work in order to support her family.
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FORTIES
1737
40 Years Old
Ann's most notable work was compiling and publishing five editions of the Rhode Island Almanack, for the years 1737-1741.
1741
44 Years Old
In 1741, she began selling her brother-in-law Benjamin's alamanac, Poor Richard's Alamanac, and in 1745, she printed 500 copies of the Acts and Laws of Rhode Island as a folio edition, her largest commission.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1758
61 Years Old
In 1758, they published the Newport Mercury, Rhode Island's first newspaper.
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1761
64 Years Old
She took on the printer Samuel Hall, who had been her son-in-law, as her business partner in 1761, forming "Franklin & Hall". Under this imprint, they printed a folio of Rhode Island schedules. Ann Smith Franklin died in Newport in 1763.
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1763
67 Years Old
Died on April 16, 1763.
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