Benjamin Franklin Bache
1769–98
American newspaper editor and publisher. Grandson of Benjamin Franklin, with whom he travelled to Paris as a boy in 1776. Educated in Paris and Geneva before returning to Philadelphia in 1785. BA, Pennsylvania, 1787. Founded the republican newspaper, the General Advertiser, in 1790; the name changed to the Aurora and General Advertiser in 1794.
Source
ANB
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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