Coates Kinney

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. 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)