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The result was keep, certainly no consensus to delete, but please add the references mentioned.. Bduke (talk) 11:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin Franklin Bache[edit]

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Aside from being the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and the son of a red-linked politician, I can't find anything about this guy that gives him notability. Because notability is not inherited and without his famous relatives he is otherwise completely non-notable, I don't see any reason to keep this article. DesertAngel 05:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep - According to an obituary and Appleton's Cyclopedia he seems to have been somewhat significant as a surgeon in the Navy and a director during the Civil War of the Naval Laboratory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which supplied most of the Union Navy's medical supplies, and later Medical Director of the Navy. He also was a professor at Kenyon College. The guide to the Castle-Bache Collection says he "became a noted physician and chemist, teaching at the Franklin Institute (1826-1832), the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (1831-1841), and at Jefferson Medical College." Further research, perhaps in offline media, might better establish his notability as a physician, chemist or academic. I don't know if there are any guidelines on notability of military officers, but if it is relevant, he reached the "relative" rank of commodore according to the obituary (see Commodore (United States)#Civil War to see why this might not mean much.--Michael White^T·C 01:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Struck-through text refers to another person, Franklin Bache (1792-1864).--Michael White^T·C 12:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Some more refs, mainly not online. This seems to be an obit in the New England Medical Monthly, this in the Detroit Lancet. This and this say he converted to catholicism in 1849. This biography of E. R. Squibb, mentions him seeking the approbration of BFB, and this also mentions BFB in association with Squibb. John Z (talk) 00:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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