Franklin was the son of Smith Atwood and Nancy Goodson. He married Agnes Rea Luscomb on October 22, 1908. He was the prosecuting attorney for Carroll County, Missouri from 1915-1919, and served as a delegate to the Missouri State Constitutional Convention in 1922. From 1925-1935 the served as a supreme court justice of the Missouri State Court. He was a member of the Baptist church. He was an attorney by profession and was a member of the American Bar Association. He also was a member of the American Judicature Society. He was a member of the Order of the Coif, the Freemasons. He was a member of the Phi Delta Phi and the Phi Gamma Delta. He died in the Atwood Hospital of a coronary thormbosis. His funeral services were handled by the Standley Funeral Home and was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Franklin was the son of Smith Atwood and Nancy Goodson. He married Agnes Rea Luscomb on October 22, 1908. He was the prosecuting attorney for Carroll County, Missouri from 1915-1919, and served as a delegate to the Missouri State Constitutional Convention in 1922. From 1925-1935 the served as a supreme court justice of the Missouri State Court. He was a member of the Baptist church. He was an attorney by profession and was a member of the American Bar Association. He also was a member of the American Judicature Society. He was a member of the Order of the Coif, the Freemasons. He was a member of the Phi Delta Phi and the Phi Gamma Delta. He died in the Atwood Hospital of a coronary thormbosis. His funeral services were handled by the Standley Funeral Home and was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery.