Coates Kinney
Coates Kinney (November 24, 1826 – January 25, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, journalist and poet who wrote Rain On The Roof.
Coates Kinney | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 24, 1826 |
| Died | January 25, 1904 (aged 77) |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, politician, journalist, and poet |
| Relatives | Allen Carpé (grandson) |
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, Xenia, and Springfield, Illinois.[1]
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
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