Biography
Franklin Bache was Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and edited Philadelphia’s Aurora, the country’s leading Democratic-Republican newspaper. A federal marshal arrested him on June 26, 1798, for common-law seditious libel based on his attacks on President John Adams and the executive branch. Bache posted bond and continued publishing while awaiting trial. He died of yellow fever on September 10, 1798, before the case could be tried.