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  1. Jane Franklin Mecom (March 27, 1712 – May 7, 1794) was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and was considered one of his closest confidants. Mecom and Franklin corresponded for sixty-three years, throughout the course of Ben Franklin's life, and some of their letters survive.

    • May 7, 1794 (aged 82), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
  2. Jane Franklin Mecom. 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 brother’s scientific and political career through his writings and their correspondence.

  3. Early during the research phase, I came across an exchange of letters between Jane Franklin Mecom (1712-1794) and Benjamin Franklin and was immediately inspired. Mecom was Franklin’s beloved younger sister.

  4. 19 de dez. de 2013 · She became Jane Mecom at fifteen, married to an unremarkable and increasingly troublesome saddler of twenty-two, Edward Mecom, who simply moved himself into the Franklin home and began attempting, unsuccessfully, to find himself a job.

  5. Jane Franklin Mecom was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin. She was not, in any other respect, overtly extraordinary. As a widowed, middle aged woman of Boston, struggling to keep herself afloat with a small business and often dependent on the charity of her relations, she must have been

  6. 21 de set. 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.

  7. 1 de jul. de 2014 · Books. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. Jill Lepore. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 1, 2014 - History - 464 pages. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. ONE OF THE BEST...