# Geriatric Glory: Historic Figures Who Did Amazing Things In Their Old Age

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/geriatric-glory-historic-figures-who-did-amazing-things-in-their-old-age/
- Published: 2024-01-19T10:00:18-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image caption: Benjamin Franklin was a babe magnet, well into his old age. New York Post photo composite. Article by Khalid Elhassan. History Collection – December 19, 2023. Old age might slow us down, but it need not be a barrier to great accomplishments. Take the woman who spent her work-life as a confectioner, then became a literary icon in her nineties. Or the French infantryman who served for ninety years, and died still a soldier at age 108. […] Click here to view original web page at historycollection.com