Francis Scott Key wife. Sickles was acquitted in the first use of the temporary insanity defense. In1861 Key's grandson Francis Key Howard was imprisoned in Fort McHenry with the Mayor of Baltimore George William Brown and other locals deemed pro-South. Key was a distant cousin and the namesake of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. His direct descendants include geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, guitarist Dana Key, and American fashion designer and socialite Pauline de Rothschild. Francis Scott Key Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland who
F. Scott Fitzgerald would allow him to," and wrote to her "daily the incoherent, expressive letters all young lovers write." She would become his inspiration for the character of Isabelle Borgé, Amory Blaine's first love in "This Side of Paradise", for Daisy in "The Great Gatsby", and several other characters in his novels and short stories. After their relationship ended in 1917 Fitzgerald had requested that Ginevra destroy the letters that he had wrote her. He never destroyed the letters that King had sent him. After he had passed in 1940 his daughter "Scottie" sent the letters back to King where she kept