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Kinney, Coates

lawyer, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1826, in Penn Yan, N. Y. He is an Ohio lawyer and journalist, and the author of Keuka, and Other Poems; and Lyrics of the Real and Ideal.

The Rain Upon the Roof is his most familiar poem.

KINNEY, MRS. ELIZABETH CLE- MENTINE [DODGE] [STEDMAN], author, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1810, in New York city. She was a poet of Newark, N. J., but resident in Italy in 1850-65, and the author of Felicita; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. She died Nov. 19, 1889, in Summit, N. J.

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