Coates kinney death reason

Coates Kinney was born on the west bank of Crooked Lake—Keeuka in Indian—not far from Penn Yan, in Yates county, New York, November twenty-four, 1826. Without any aid from his parents, their gifted son has obtained a liberal education by his own exertions. . . . [H]e has taught both in the common and high schools, edited papers, and practiced law, which is now his profession.

In the spring of 1840 he came to Springboro, Warren county, Ohio, where he spent the most of his later boyhood. He was married on the seventeenth of July, 1851, to Hanna Kelley of Waynesville, of the same county. The issue of their marriage was three children, two of which are deceased&mda

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Coates Kinney

 

of Kinney's Corners

by

Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.

The region around Keuka Lake has produced a number of native sons and daughters who have had distinguished careers in other parts of the country but were not forgotten in the land of their birth. One such person is Coates Kinney, although his name may not be familiar even to the local people who pass the monument in his memory, located on a triangle of land in front of the Merry-Go-Round convenience store at Kinney's Corners about half way between Penn Yan and Branchport.

The monument is a granite boulder with a bronze plaque that reads:

1827 - 1904
NEAR THIS SPOT WAS BORN
COATES KINNEY
SOLDIER, STATESMAN, POET
ERECTED BY GU-YA-N-GA CHAPTER
D.A.R. PENN YAN, N.Y.
AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK
1927

Coates Kinney was born on November 24, 1826, at Kinney's Corners, Yates County, and named after his grandfather, Stephen, and his father, Giles Kinney, who ran a tavern there. Although he left New York State for Ohio with his family in 1840 at the age of fourteen and never returned to live in Yates County, his

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Coates Kinney

American politician and poet

Coates Kinney
Born	(1826-11-24)November 24, 1826 Penn Yan, New York
Died	January 25, 1904(1904-01-25) (aged 77)
Occupation(s)	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.

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.^[1]

Works

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

References

Sources

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Kinney, Coates" . New Interna