Junto Club

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 676 words | Copyright

Junto Club (The Junto), social and debating society, founded by Franklin at Philadelphia (1727), with a membership restricted to 12 of his friends, all workingmen. The club was first known as the Leather Aprons and in plan of organization was similar to the neighborhood benefit societies founded at Boston by Cotton Mather, but the thought was directed along deistic and utilitarian lines. It existed approximately 40 years, during which time it was an important cultural influence, and affiliated clubs were organized. In 1731 it formed a subscription library, which was the first American public library. It was also the forerunner of the American Philosophical Society.

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