Key, FRANCIS SCOTT, author of 'The Star-spangled Banner,' was born in Maryland, 9th August 1780, practised law at Frederick City and at Washington, and became district attorney for the District of Columbia. It was during the British invasion in 1814, at the attack on Baltimore, which he witnessed from an English man-of-war, that Key, after watching through the gray dawn to see which flag floated over the ramparts of Fort
McHenry, wrote the words which have kept his name alive. He died 11th January 1843. A collection of his poems appeared in 1857. There is a handsome monument by Story, erected at the expense of James Lick, at San Francisco.