Coates Kinney | |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1826 |
Birth Place: | Penn Yan, New York |
Occupation: | 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.
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]