About Coates Kinney
Lived 1826 – 1904 (aged 77). Coates Kinney was an American lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer.
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 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.
Works Keeuka (1855) Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real (1888) Rain On The Roof (lyrical poem)
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Who was Coates Kinney?
American poet, journalist, and politician (1826–1904)
When was Coates Kinney born?
Coates Kinney was born on 24 November 1826 in United States.
When did Coates Kinney die?
Coates Kinney died on 25 January 1904.
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Coates Kinney was a lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer.
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Coates Kinney was American.
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