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

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, 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

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. From June 1861 until November 1865, he was a paymaster in the

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and was mustered out with the commission of brevet lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. He was a delegate to the convention that nominated

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for the presidency in 1868 and its Ohio secretary. He was the

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from the 5th district in the Ohio legislature 1882-1883, and delivered a speech against "The Official Rail Road Pass". He wrote poetry, and his verses were collected in ''Keeuka and Other Poems'' (Cincinnati, 1855) and ''Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real'' (1888). Of his verses, "The Rain on the Roof", which was set to music, was the most popular. He died in Ohio in 1904. His grandson was the mountaineer

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, who is the namesake of Mount Carpe in Alaska.

Works

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

References

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External links

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"Poets of Ohio"
(2012) from the

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and the

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