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Early Life of Francis Scott Key
1779
Francis Scott Key is born at Terra Rubra, his parent's estate, in what was then northeast Frederick County.
1789
After ten years growing up in Frederick County, Key attends St. John's Grammar School and then St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
1796
Key graduates from St. John's College at the top of his class, then studies law.
1801
Key begins his law career in Frederick. His college friend, Robert Brooke Taney, also practices law in Frederick, and later marries Key's sister Anne.
1802
Key marries Mary Tayloe Lloyd in Annapolis. |