FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN: 1812-1876.
Benjamin Franklin was senior member of the printing firm of Franklin & Smith of Milton, Ind. They were publishing a newspaper, the MILTON TIMES, as early as 1847 (no copies are recorded as being preserved, and the extent of publication is not known), and in 1848 their imprint appears upon a report of a religious debate published by them.
Franklin also edited and the firm published the page: 115[View Page 115] WESTERN REFORMER, A MONTHLY PUBLICATION, DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF CHRISTIANITY. The volumes of this preserved in the Indiana University Library are Vol. 6 and Vol. 7, 1847 to 1849. Vols. 1 to 5 of this paper, under the title of THE REFORMER, had been published at Centerville, Ind.
Information from Ms. notes of R. E. Banta, Walker–Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana, and the Indiana State Library.
- An Oral Debate on the Coming of the Son of Man, Endless
Punishment, and Universal Salvation. Held in Milton, Ind., Oct. 26, 27, and
28, 1847. Between Erasmus Manford, Editor of the Western Universalist, and
Benjamin Franklin, Editor of the Western Reformer.
Indianapolis, 1848.
- Gospel Preacher; a Book of Twenty Sermons.
Cincinnati, 1869.
- Oral Debate Between Benjamin Franklin and J. A. Thompson,
Held at Reynoldsburg, Ohio … On I. Remission of Sins …
11. Quickening of the Sinner … III. Baptism … IV.
Eternal Salvation. Franklin, 1874.
