Elderly Descendant of Benjamin Franklin in Eyeglasses

(Original Caption) Ben Franklin's Great Granddaughter For Congress. Mrs. Ellen Duane Davis, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin and Chairman of the Women's Democratic Organization of the 8th ward in Philadelphia, has announced her intention to run for Congress at the next election. Her original intention was to campaign for the Senatorship, but her husband persuaded her that the great statewide barnstorming would prove too arduous for her.