BIO: Orrin H. FRANKLIN, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 105-106.
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    DR. ORRIN H. FRANKLIN, whose portrait is presented on the opposite page, is
  a leading and successful dentist of Beaver Falls, where he has been engaged in
  the practice of his profession for many years; he is a practical man and has a
  shrewd eye for improvements and new adaptations in his profession. Almost his
  entire time not devoted to practice, is spent in study, and his friends and
  admirers are satisfied that he will yet win a name that will rank high in the
  world of science; even the few that are slow to take up with any new thing, no
  matter how meritorious, concede that his success is something wonderful. Dr.
  Franklin is a son of Benjamin and Martha (Reed) Franklin, and was born in
  Industry township, Beaver county, Pa., February 3, 1859. He received a good
  common school training; after leaving school he learned the trade of a cooper
  and keg maker, commencing at about the age of fifteen years, with the firm of
  M. T. & U. S. Kennedy.
    
    Young Franklin was quick and handy with tools, having much natural ability
  in that direction, and soon became an expert kegmaker; he worked at that
  trade for four or five years, receiving at first but 30 cents per day. It was
  his ambition to fit himself for something better, and to this end he applied
  himself with an ardor that has been followed by very successful results. By
  strict attention to business and by economy, he saved enough money while in
  the cooper business to carry him through college. After studying for two
  years with Dr. A. M. Whisler, of New Brighton, one of the oldest
  practitioners of the county, he entered the Pennsylvania Dental College of
  Philadelphia, completing the course February 25, 1882. Immediately after his
  graduation, Dr. Franklin located in New Brighton and practiced dentistry
  there for four years, securing a liberal patronage. In the meantime, Dr.
  Franklin had opened up a branch office at Beaver Falls, where he also
  practiced dentistry a part of his time. At the end of his fourth year he had
  opportunity to sell the business at New Brighton for a satisfactory
  consideration, and was induced to dispose of his interests at that place and
  devote his whole attention and time to the practice of his profession in
  Beaver Falls, which, by that time, had increased to extensive proportions.
    
    Dr. Franklin is a conscientious gentleman and is very highly regarded
  wherever he is known. His professional ability is recognized and the high
  position he occupies in the estimation of the citizens of Beaver Falls is
  well merited. He is a member of the Odontological Society of Pittsburg.
    
    Dr. Franklin was married to Lucy Thorn-
    
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  ley, an accomplished lady, September 30, 1885. One son, Benjamin, resulted
  from this union.
    
    Benjamin Franklin, father of the subject of these lines, was a native of
  the state of New York, and was reared and educated in Ohio, whither he had
  been taken. He subsequently located in Beaver county, Pa., and adopted the
  profession of teaching, to which he has devoted his energies since that time;
  he now has the distinction of being the oldest teacher in Beaver county. He is
  spending his declining years at New Brighton, in charge of a school. He ranks
  high among the ablest instructors in Western Pennsylvania and has served two
  terms of three years each, as superintendent of schools of Beaver county. He
  has always taken a leading part in the educational development of the county,
  being an advocate of good schools and competent teachers as the best means of
  suppressing lawlessness, and making honorable citizens, and true men and
  women. He and his good wife were blessed with two children, the elder of whom
  is the subject of this biography, and the younger, Milan O., resides with his
  father, in New Brighton, and occupies a position in the Union Drawn Steel
  Works.