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) |
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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 as one of the world's finest lawyers. 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
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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