. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . espair he continued tomake notes. The men-o-war fell back. Key and his companions werepermitted to go ashore. In a small boat with Dr. Beanes,Colonel Skinner and an oarsman. Key finished his proceeded into the city and came to Fountain Inn, whichstood on Light Street, near Orange Alley, now German night he completed the poem destined to become theAmerican National Anthem. In the morning he took the verses to his Nicholson. The words were found to fit perfectly
. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . espair he continued tomake notes. The men-o-war fell back. Key and his companions werepermitted to go ashore. In a small boat with Dr. Beanes,Colonel Skinner and an oarsman. Key finished his proceeded into the city and came to Fountain Inn, whichstood on Light Street, near Orange Alley, now German night he completed the poem destined to become theAmerican National Anthem. In the morning he took the verses to his Nicholson. The words were found to fit perfectly thethen popular melody, Anacreon in Heaven. Carrying thesong to the printing office of Benjamin Edes (Baltimore andGay Streets), then serving as captain of the Twenty-seventhRegiment, copies of it were ordered. Samuel Sands, an ap-prentice, set the type and printed it. That evening it was sung in the taverns. Bonfires were litin the streets and the citizens of Baltimore made merry, whilethe British with their dead commander and scores of woundedwere on the Chesapeake, outward bound. 37. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY tes-pS^^gg^^ED OFFICIAL PROGRAMME cE^^lirfu) FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. I HE author of our national anthem, The Star-ts Spangled Banner, was born on his fathersestate, Terra Rubra, Maryland. The datef^^^^^^^ of his birth is in dispute. It is given as August 1,1779, and August 9, 1780. Terra Rubra was at that time in Frederick County, butthe locality now forms part of Carroll County. There in theshadow of the Catoctin Mountain, amid fertile valleys, FrancisScott Key was reared. He was the son of John Ross Key, who served with dis-tinction as an officer m the Continental Army, and Ann PhoebeDagworthy Charlton Key. General and Mrs. Key had anotherchild, Ann Arnold Key, who married her brothers chum,Roger Brooke Taney, Secretary of the Treasury under Presi-dent Jackson and later Chief Justice of the United StatesSupreme Court. From the peaceful shades of Terra Rubra young Key wassent to St
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