Where was Henry George born?
For, although the fact is forgotten, the great Single Taxer was born at 413 South Tenth Street. Where did Robert Mor- ris live? His unfinished *’ Folly” is tauntingly re- membered, but his home is forgotten. Nay, you would ask in vain where lived the most famous Philadelphian of all, Benjamin Franklin, 11 THE BOOK OF PHILADELPHIA A few, a very few, could tell where was located the home that he built for himself after he had been for many years a Philadelphian, the home that was his when he died, but no one could tell you, with cer- tainty, where he lived and worked during the most important years of his life, the formative years, when he and his printing press were establishing their permanent place in the history of not only Philadelphia but of the world. Boston honors his birth-site, London his lodging place, Twyford his visiting place, Paris knows where he lived while at the French court, but Philadelphia has forgotten his working-place. And yet, it is not that Franklin has been neg
