Coates Kinney
Appearance
Coates Kinney | |
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Born | |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- Keeuka (1855)
- Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real (1888)
- Rain On The Roof (lyrical poem)
References
[edit]- ^ "AAC Publications - Allen Carpe, 1894-1932". publications.americanalpineclub.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
Sources
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
Categories:
- 1826 births
- 1904 deaths
- 19th-century American poets
- American male poets
- American male journalists
- Union army officers
- Ohio lawyers
- Republican Party Ohio state senators
- Antioch College alumni
- People of Ohio in the American Civil War
- Politicians from Xenia, Ohio
- 19th-century American male writers
- Journalists from Ohio
- 19th-century American legislators