Coates Kinney
Coates Kinnney | |
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| Born | November 24, 1826 Penn Yan, New York |
| Died | January 25, 1904 (aged 77) |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, politician, journalist, and poet |
| Relatives | Allen Carpé (grandson) |
Coates Kinney (November 24, 1826 – January 25, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, journalist and poet who wrote Rain On The Roof.
Biography
Coates Kinney was born in 1826 near Penn Yan, New York. He was partly educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and was accompanied by Thomas Corwin, a former US secretary of the Treasury, while he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1856. He became a journalist, and worked on papers in Cincinnati, Ohio, Xenia, and Springfield, Illinois.
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Works
- Keeuka (1855)
- Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real (1888)
- Rain On The Roof (lyrical poem)
References
- ^ "AAC Publications - Allen Carpe, 1894-1932". publications.americanalpineclub.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
Sources
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coates Kinney.
- Coates Kinney at Find a Grave
- Works by Coates Kinney at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- "Poets of Ohio" (2012) from the Ohio Historical Society and the State Library of Ohio
