Ancestry 7 C. F. E. Emil Key was born 1822 at Eds- manor in Smaland. His parents married early, were devoted and happy, but the father died very suddenly when the son was but two years old. The mother was rarely beautiful. None who had seen her could forget her. She contracted a second marriage with Baron Adam Christian Raab, renowned for his participation in political life. He had seen her once while she was still married and had said to himself at the time: "She, or none. " A year later she was a widow, and in her loneliness, and with her two young children to bring up, she finally yielded to his ardent suit. Emil Key was brought up on his step father's country-seat, Ryssbylund, near Bjorno, the childhood home of Sophie Posse. When his education was completed, he entered the civil service, which he left after five years. His inheritance from his father afforded him ample means for travels abroad, and these journeys he later described in a narrative which was one of the books often read by his daughter Ellen, awakening in her a longing for the wonders of the great world. Emil Key was in every respect a liberal- minded man. His ideal of a citizen was