. Book of the Royal blue . is pocket. Francis Scott Key was born in Fred-erick County, Maryland, August 1, was the son of an officer in the revolu-tionary army, and after having graduatedfrom St. Johns College in 1798, he becamea lawyer. His death occurred in Baltimorein He was buried in GreenmountCemetery of that city, but as he had oftenexpressed the wish, Let me rest neaththe everlasting hills, his remains wereremoved to his native soil to Mt. OlivetCemetery at Frederick, Maryland, in 186G. The beautiful new monument to mark hislast resting place was unveiled in 1898. A sketc
. Book of the Royal blue . is pocket. Francis Scott Key was born in Fred-erick County, Maryland, August 1, was the son of an officer in the revolu-tionary army, and after having graduatedfrom St. Johns College in 1798, he becamea lawyer. His death occurred in Baltimorein He was buried in GreenmountCemetery of that city, but as he had oftenexpressed the wish, Let me rest neaththe everlasting hills, his remains wereremoved to his native soil to Mt. OlivetCemetery at Frederick, Maryland, in 186G. The beautiful new monument to mark hislast resting place was unveiled in 1898. A sketch of the little city of his birthis most timely. Frederick, founded in 1745 by PatrickDulaney, is of national interest. Its namewas chosen from the sixth Lord of Balti-more—Frederick. It combines in itsrecord close associations with many of thestirring and leading events which figuredso conspicuously in the formative period ofthe government. It was the court of Frederick Countywhich formulated in 1765, the first official. FREDERICK, MA R YLAND. K J nnini mt .-^flHI^ - ^ . .. -. .*.. m ^^C^^^ protest against the British Stamp in 1775, Governor Sharpe, GeneralBraddock and Colonel Washington met toplan the campaign against the Indians, inwhich General Braddock lost his life; herethe Marquis de Lafayette was given ahearty welcome in 1824, while on histriumphal tour of the country to receivethe plaudits of a grateful people; hereoccurred the first meeting between ColonelWashington and Benjamin Franklin; here,due in large part to the passage throughthe heart of the town of the one greathighway to the West of those days, later,the National Turnpike, many of thedramatic instances of the Indian wars andthe Revolutionary struggle were enacted;and, again in the progress of the CivilWar, Frederick figured as a theatre,across whose stage the contending armiesof the North and South crossed andrecrossed, her homes, her churches andher public halls serving as hospitals forthe wo
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