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Coates Kinney

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Coates Kinney
Born(1826-11-24)November 24, 1826
DiedJanuary 25, 1904(1904-01-25) (aged 77)
Occupation(s)Lawyer, politician, journalist, and poet
RelativesAllen Carpé (grandson)
Kinney's home on East Second Street in Xenia

Coates Kinney (November 24, 1826 – January 25, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, journalist and poet who wrote Rain On The Roof.

Biography

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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, and was considered a fine lawyer. He became a journalist, and worked on papers in Cincinnati, Xenia, and Springfield, Illinois.[1]

Works

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  • Keeuka (1855)
  • Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real (1888)
  • Rain On The Roof (lyrical poem)

References

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  1. ^ "AAC Publications - Allen Carpe, 1894-1932". publications.americanalpineclub.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

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