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

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. He was partly educated at

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, 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

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in 1856, and was considered a fine lawyer. He became a journalist, and worked on papers in Cincinnati,

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, and

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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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