a journalist and publisher, founding a newspaper. He was a spokesman for the Jeffersonian Republicans; he strenuously opposed George Washington, John Adams and the Federalist party. He died during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. He ran the Aurora newspaper and printing business with his wife Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache. William Franklin Bache (1773–1814), who married Catherine Wistar. Sarah Franklin Bache (1775–1776) Eliza Franklin Bache (1777–1820) married John Harwood. Louis Franklin Bache (1779–1818), a Lt. Col. in the Pennsylvania State Militia Volunteers during the War of 1812 who married Mary Ann Swift and, after her death, Esther Egee. Deborah Franklin Bache (1781–1863), who married William J. Duane, a lawyer who was appointed as the 11th United States Secretary of the Treasury. Richard Franklin Bache (1784–1848), who served in the Republic of Texas Navy and served in the Second Texas Legislature. He married Sophia Durrell Dallas, eldest daughter of Alexander J. Dallas. Sarah Franklin Bache (1788–1863), married Thomas Sergeant, an associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and postmaster of Philadelphia. Sally, a leader in relief work during the War and for women in the pro-independence effort, died from cancer in Philadelphia on October 5, 1808. Bache died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1811. He was buried alongside his wife at Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. Descendants Through his son William, he was a grandfather of U.S. Navy surgeon Benjamin Franklin Bache (1801–1881). Through his son Richard, he was a grandfather of the physicist Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867) and Mary Blechynden Bache (1808–1873), wife of Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of Kansas, and U.S. Senator from Mississippi, Robert John Walker and mother of five children, including Union Army General Duncan Stephen Walker. Through his daughter Eliza, he was a grandfather of the United States Navy Admiral Andrew A. Harwood. Through his youngest daughter Sarah, he was a great-grandfather of Margaret Mason Perry (of the Perry family of Rhode Island) who married John La Farge. References External links Sarah Franklin Bache Papers, American Philosophical Society 1737 births 1811 deaths Franklin family Insurance underwriters British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies People of colonial Pennsylvania People from Settle, North Yorkshire People of Pennsylvania in the American Revolution United States Postmasters General