Not the man from Philadelphia! It is one of the Canterbury tales, in Chaucer"s time a Franklin was a sort of real estate Land Baron, who collected rents from his tenants and so on. This usage never...
It's of course: "The Lord Of The Rings (3books)" That is what the person who had originally did this one said but he or she has obviously never heard of Harry Potter. The first few are okay. But from...
A Franklin was a freeman who owned land, but was not of noble birth. So not a noble, but not a serf, this is the origin of the term 'middle class'. Most franklins were farmers.