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COLONEL COATES KINNEY
POET SOLDIER JOURNALIST STATESMAN ORATOR
'I priiy iIkiI Iut slrci)){ili aiul Kraiuli-iii incTc-asi-
To Uitor llic worltl iti ihc ways (if (hmcc,
l ill tlio lamb shall lie in t))e lion's ilen
And the wars oL Kin^s at the bidding ecase
Oi the strong American Citizen."
(Stanza from Che Amcricun Citizen)
COATES KINNEY - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Among the Counties of Ohio, Greene has furnished more than its quota of
notable literary men; and in devotion to the state and nation, as shown in public
service and in literary expression, none has surpassed Colonel Coates Kinney of
Xenia.
Coates Kinney was born at Kinney s Corners, near Penn Van, Yates County,
New York, November 24, 1826. He was the second son of Giles and Mira
Cornell Kinney and the grandson of Stephen Kinney, a Revolutionary soldier.
His first memories were of Lake Keeuka, one of the group known as "The Finger
Lakes." He wrote in later years, "My soul's first-felt stir was by such a lake," and
again, "I have always loved the living waters." The influences of his early en
vironment are apparent in many of his poems.
During his boyhood (1840) the family moved to Ohio where he made his
home until the time of his death, January 25, 1904.
He attended Antioch College during the presidency of I hirace Mann. He
studied law under two outstanding men, Thomas Corwin of Warren County
(later Governor and LI. S. Senator) and judge William Lawrence, of Logan
County, and practiced law for a time. However, his inclination toward a literary
career Wits so strong that he soon turned to journalism and, thereafter, devoted
him.self largely to editorial work and to writing poetry. Before entering military
service in the Civil War he edited the Xenia News, and after the War he was
for some time editor of the Xenia Torchlight, forerunner of The Xenia Gir/ette.
In 1884 he was chief owner and editor of the Globe Republic, of Springfield.
While in newspaper work he contributed frequently to The Cincinnati Times
and to The Ohio State Journal.
In 1849 RAIN ON THE ROOF appeared and, making an immediate
appeal, brought the young poet into prominence. Regarding the inspiration for
this gem the author, in a letter to his friend Dr. William Henry Venable, wrote:
"1 slept one night next the r<)of in the little farm cottage which our folks
lived in. ... In the evening there came up a gentle rain, which pattered on the
shingle nx)!' two or three feet aliove my head. ... 1lere I lay antl conceived the
lyric and then went to sleep. It haunted me next day, which was bright and
green and glorious; and on a walk from Spring Valley to Mt. Holly 1 composed
most of the poem. It was the easiest production I ever wrote."
Throughout the duration of the Civil War Colonel Kinney was in active
service. The patriotic passions which were stirring men's hearts at that time
found frequent expression in his poems.
Securing leave of a few days from military duties, the young officer came
to Xenia, married Mary Catherine Allen, and returned to his post.
Colonel Kinney served in the Ohio Senate in 1882 1888 and was rated as
the leading Republican speaker in that body. In 1888 he was selected to c(mpose
and deliver the poetic oration which became famous as the "Ohio Centenni
al ode."
Three volums of Coates Kinnev's poems have been published: KEELIKA,
LYRICS OF THE IDEAL AND THE REAL, and MISTS OF FIRE. In
addition to these a volume of selected poems was issued in 1927 by his daughter,
Lestra Kinnev Kenyon, for private circulation at the ilcdication, on the centennial
of his birth, of a tablet to his memory. This meiiKnial was erected near the place
of his birth bv GuYaNo-Ga C^bapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
Lestra Kinnev Kenvon
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RAIN ON THE ROOF
VV'hfn the huinicl shadows hover
Over ill] the starry spheres.
And the nielancholy darkness
Gentlv weeps in rainy tears.
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottaKC-chamber bed,
And listen to the patter
Of the soft niin overhead.
Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in my heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
into bus\' beinj; st;irt.
And a thousand recollections
\\'ca\'e their iiir thrciids into woof
As 1 listen to the iiiitter
Of the rain upon the r<iol.
Now in memory comes my mother.
As she used in years ayone.
To ccyartl the diirliny dreamers
lire she left them till lire rlawn.
O. 1 feel her fond look on me.
As I list to this refrain.
Which is plaved upon the shiiiKles
fU the p.illei of the rain.
1hen my little seraph sister,
With the winys iind wavinjj hair.
Ami her star-e\ed cheridi Irrother-
A serene, angelic pair-
Glide around my wakeful irillow.
With their praise or mild reproof.
As 1 'isten to the murmur
01 the soli rain on the roof.
And another comes to thrill me
With her c\es delicious blue;
And I mind not musiny on her,
1 hat my heart she never knew;
1 rememher hut to lox'c her
With a passion kin to jiaiii,
And my lieart's iiuiek pulses quiver
lo the patter of the rain.
Art hath naunln i l tone or cadence
That can work with such a sj>ell
In the soul's mysterious fountains,
\\'iience the tears of rapture well,
.\s that melody of nature.
That suhilueii. subduiny strain.
Which is played upon the shingles
l>v tlie p.liter i>f the rain.
{kvoriiilftl tfOiii Howf's HisloriCrtl tolleelions ol tllim, Volume- I)
OHIO CENTENNIAL ODE
By Colonel Coates Kinney
Delivered in the Coliseum, Columbus, Ohio, on the Opening Day, September 4, 1888, of the State
Celebration of the Arrival of the Centennial Year.
In what historic thousand years of man
Mas there been builded such a State as
this?
Yet. since the clamor of the axes ran
Along the great woods, with the groan and
hiss
And eras!) of trees, to hew thy goundseis
here,
Ohio! hut a century has gone,
Ami thy repuh'ie's Iniiiding stands the peer
Of any that the sun and stars shine on.
Not oti a fallen empire's ruhhish-heap.
Not on old (|uicksands wet with blood of
wrong.
Do the foundations of thy structure sleep,
Hut 4111 a gHiiind 4)1 u.iiure, new ati<l slicing.
iMi'ii that lia4| laced the Olil \V4)rld seven
\ears
In battle on the Old World turited their
hacks
And, unitting Old-World thoughts and ho|>es
and fears.
With 4nly rifle, p4)wder horn and axe
Inir tools of civilization, won their way
Into the wilderness, against wild man and
Iwast,
And l.iul the wooil gkHiins open t4) the day.
And from the sway of savagery released
rite laitd to n)bler uses of a higher race;
Where Labor, Knowledge, Freedom, Peace,
and Law
Have wrought all miracles of dream in place
And timeay, more than ever dream fore
saw.
A hundred years of Labor! Labor free!
Our River ran between it and the curse.
And freemen proved how toil can glory be.
The heroes that Ohio took to nurse
(As the she-wolf the founders of old
Rome)
Their deeds of fame let history rehearse
And oratory celebrate; but see
This paradise their hands have made 4)ur
h4)me!
Noll, plumes 4>f wheat, wave, banderttles of
C4irn,
r4)ss, orchartl 4)riflammes, swing, wreathes
of vine,
Shout, happy farms, with voice of sheep
and kine,
f^ir the 4)ld victttries coni|uered here 4n
these
The fielils 4l Labor when, ere we were
h4irn,
riu' l.ulu'rs liiughl tin* armies 4i| the
liees.
And, chopping out the night, chopt in the
morn!
A hundred years of Knowledge! We have
mixt
More brains with Labor in the century
1 ban man hatl done since the decree was fixt
rhat Lab4)r >vas his doom and dignity.
All honor to th4vse far-r4)rew4)rking men
Who, as they st4)oped their sickles in to
fling.
Or took the wheat upon the cradles' swing,
rhought )f the hoy, the little citizen
There gathering sheaves, and planned the
sclicH)! for him.
Which slnndd wind up the ckxkwrirk 4)f
his mind
lo cuiujiiig nu.vcs 4if wheels and blades that
skim
Across ih" fie!<ls and reap, and rake, and
bind!
1he\ nlanned the schoolsthe wihkIs were
full of schools!
Our learning has not soared, but it has
spread:
Oluos intellects arc sharpened tools
To ileal with daily fact ami daily bread.
1he starry peaks of knowledge in thin air
I ler culture has not climbed, but on the
plain.
In whatsoever is to do or dare
With mind or matter, there behold 4ier
reign.
The a.xemen who chopt out the clearing here
Where stands the Capital, could thev to
day
Arise and see our hundred years' display
Steam-wagons in their thundering career-
Wires that a friend's voice waft across a
State,
And wires that wink a tlumght across the
sea.
And wires wherein imprisoned lightnings
wait
T) leap forth at the turning of a key-
Could they these shows of mind in matter
note.
Machines that almost conscious souls con
fess.
Seeming to will and thinkthe printing
press,
N4)t quite intelligent enough to vote-
Could they arise these marvels t4) behold.
What W4ul<l t4) them the past Uepuhlic
seem -
I he Stat<* hisl4iiilicd in \-oltuiics 4>1<I,
()| piophcMol III t.icciaii Plato's tlieain;
A huntlrcd years of Freedom! Freedom such
No other people on the earth had known
Till our America the world had shown
What Freedom meant: No foot of slave
might touch
Our earth, no master's lash outrage our
heaven:
The Declaration of the Great July,
Fired by our Ordinance of Eighty-seven,
Flamed from the River to the northern
sky;
Ay, that flame rose against the Arctic stars,
And shone a new aurore across the land.
A Body scored with stripes >f whip and
scars
Of branding iron seemed to understand
Soulless though reckoned by our Union's
pact
That It was Man, for whom that heavenly
sign
I.it up the North; and while the bl(HKlhounds
tracked
Him footsore through Kentucky, stars be
nign
Befriended him and brought him to our shore,
A stranger, frightened, hungry, travel-
worn;
And we laid hands on him and gave him o'er
Again to bondage, as in fealty sworn.
So rich in Freedom, we had none to give!
While we might quaff, we could not pa.ss
the cup:
No slave should touch foot to our soil and live
Upon it slavehe must be given up!
When that first man was wrested from our
State,
Then slavery had crossed the Rubicon;
Then Freedom was the wlmle Republic's fate;
Then John Brown's soul began its march-
ing-on;
'I'hen the Ohio Idea had to go
Where'er the banner of the Union flew.
From northmost limits in Alaskan snow
To southmost in the Me.xic waters blue.
A hundred years of Peace! Yes, less the
four
(Our little Indian squabbleswere not war),
TTie four when we, in battle's sh(x:k and roar.
Declared that Freedom was worth dying for.
Ohio gave to that great fight for Man
Her Grant, her Sherman, and her Sheridan,
And her victorious hundred thousands more.
Victorious, yes, though legions of them sleep
In garments rolled in blo<Kl on foughten
fields
Though still the imrthers and the widows
weep
For the slain heroes borne home on their
shields.
7 heir glorious victory this day behold:
They conquered Peace; and where their
manly frays
Across the land of bondage stormed and
rolled.
Millions of grateful freedmen hymn their
praise.
Ohio honors them with happy tears;
7'he battles that they braved for her.
The banner that they waved for her.
The Freedom that they saved for her.
Shall keep their laurels green a thousand
years.
A hundred years of Law! The i>eople's will.
The might of the majority.
The right of the minority.
The light hand with authority,
We promised, with the purpose to fulfill;
But the contagion of the border-taint
Blackened our statues with its shameful
stain.
And left the color of our conscience faint
Till freshened by the battle-storm's red
rain.
Ay, war has legislated; it has cast
The "White Man's Government" out into
night.
And Labor, Knowledge, Freedom, Peace, at
last
Stand col>r-blind in Ljiw's resiwndent
light.
Now hail, my State of States! thy justice
wins
Thy justice and thy valor now arc one;
7 hou hast arisen, and thy little sins
Are spots of darkness lost upon the sun.
7"hy sun is upO, may it never set!
7'hese hundred years were but thy mtJm-
ing red:
It shall be forenotm for thy glory yet
When all who this day look on thee are
dead.
O, splendor of the moon awaiting thee!
O, rights of man and heights of manhood
free!
Hail, beautiful Ohio that shalt be!
Hail, Ship of State! and take our parting
cheers!
Ah, God! that we might gather here to see
Thy sails ItMmi in, swoln with a thousand
years.
A hundred years of Preedoin! Freedom such
No other people on the earth had known
Till our America the world had shown
What Freedom meant. No foot of slave might touch
Our earth no nMSter's lash outrage our heaven.
(Reprinted from Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, Volume I)
COATES KINNEY - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Among the Counties of Ohio, Greene has furnished more than its quota of
notable literary men; and in devotion to the state and nation, as shown in public
service and in literary expression, none has surpassed Colonel Coates Kinney of
Xenia.
Coates Kinney was horn at Kinney's Corners, near Penn Van, Yates County,
New York, November 24, 1826. Me was the second son of Giles and Mira
Cornell Kinney and the grand.son of Stephen Kinney, a Revolutionary soldier.
His first memories were of Lake Keeuka, one of the group known as "The Finger
Lakes." He wrote in later years, "My soul's first-felt stir was by such a lake," and
again, "I have always loved the living waters." The influences of his early en
vironment are apparent in many of his poems.
During his boyhood (1840) the family moved to Ohio where he made his
home until the time of his death, January 25, 1904.
1le attended Antioch College during the presidency of Horace Mann. He
studied law under two outstanding men, Thomas Corwin of Warren County
(later Governor and II. S. Senator) and Judge William Lawrence, of Logan
County, and praeiieed law for a time. However, his inclination toward a literary
career was so strong that he soon turneil to journalism and, thereafter, devoted
himself largely to eilitorial work aiitl to writing poetry. Belore entering military
service in the Civil War he edited the Xenia News, and after the War he was
for some time editor of the Xenia Torchlight, forerunner of The Xenia Gazette.
In 1884 he was chief owner and editor of the Globe Republic, of Springfield.
While in newspaper work he contributed frequently to The Cincinnati Times
and to The Ohio State Journal.
In IHl') H/\1N ON 11Hi ROOF appcarcil and. making an immediate
appeal, brought the young poet into prominence. Regarding the ins]nration for
this gem the author, in a letter to his Irientl Dr. William Henry Venahle, wrote:
"1 slept one night next the roof in the little farm cottage which our folks
livetl in. ... In the evening there came up a gentle rain, which jiattered on the
shingle rool two or three leel above my head. ... 1lere 1 lay and conceived the
lyric and then went to sleep. It haunted me next day, which was bright .and
green and glorious; and on a walk from Spring Valley to Mt. Holly I composed
most of the poem. It was the easiest production I ever wrote."
Throughout the duration of the Civil War Colonel Kinney was in active
service. The patriotic passions which were stirring men's hearts at that time
found frequent expre.ssion in his poems.
Securing lea\'e of a few days from military duties, the young officer came
to Xenia, married Mary Catherine Allen, and returned to his ^xist.
Colonel Kinney served in the Ohio Senate in 1882-1883 and was rated as
the leading Republican sjieaker in that body. In 1888 be was selected to compose
and deliver the poetic oration which became famous as the "Ohio Centenni
al ode."
Ihree volums of Coates Kinnev's poems have been published: KEEUKA,
I.YRICS OF THE IDEAL AND THE REAL, and MISTS OF FIRE. In
addition to these a volume of selected poems was issued in 1927 by his daughter,
Lestra Kinney Kenyon, for private circulation at the dedication, on the centennial
of his birth, of a tablet to his memory. This memorial was erected near the place
of his birth by Gu-Ya-No-Ga Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution.
Lestra Kinnev Kenvon
PERSONALITY AND BEARING
"A few months ago a stranger in Cincinnati might have met on one of the
streets of that city a man in civilian dress with the martial hearing and elastic
step of an officer temiTorarily off duty. The only evidence of advanced age was
hair and beard of immaculate white.
"Such was Coates Kinncy to the world, a militant spirit with much of
the exclusiveness and taciturnity that belong to the jirofessional warrior. Such
he was by nature and education. By birth a Puritan and by happy chance a
disciple of Horace Mann, he was in walk and conversation something of an
aristocrat. But like his famous preceptor, he was not to be judged by the austerity
of his manners or the rigidity of his classic standards. At heart he was tenderly
affectionate. The inner man, as revealed by his writings, was thoroughly demo
cratic and humanitarian."
C\ B. Galbreath, Ohio Archaeological and Hislorial Society Puhlications,
vol. 14, (1905) p. 428.
"The poet then read 'The American Citizen', which was listened to with
absorbed interest by all present. The rich low tones of the reader's voice were
distinctly heard in the remotest corners of the hall, and the inspiring poem left
an impression on the auditors never to be forgotten. Everyone who beheld the
|X)et's majestic figure and followed his slowly measured utterances felt a new
thrill of patriotic pride in the priceless heritage of American Citizenship. The
prolonged applause which followed Colonel Kinney's reading was evidence of
the enthusiastic appreciation of the students."
The Gleam. Walnut Hills HIkIi School, January, 1904.
(Issue dedicated to Coates Kinney.)
BACKGROUND OF OHIO CENTENNIAL ODE
The first permanent settlement in Ohio had been made at Marietta in 1788.
In 1888 a number of pageants, expositions, and other si^cial occasions were
staged in celebration of the hundredth anniversary. Marietta held two cele
brations; Cincinnati had an exposition, and at Columbus a statewide celebration
took the place of the State Fair.
At that time Greene County was represented in the State Legislature by one
Andrew Jackson, in the State Senate by Isaac M. Barrett, and in Congress by
M. M. Boothman. The Governor was Joseph B. Foraker. The celebration in
Columbus was a brilliant one. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic-
were there in great numbers. The City had never had so many visitors. A
high point in the program came when:
"A tall finely formed and erect gentlemen, with flashing dark eyes, and
with the most silvery head in that multitude of thousands, rose on the platform
and delivered the 'Ohio Centennial Ode*. . . . Behind him were 1500 children on
the platform in tier above tier, arrayed in red, white and blue, whose patriotic
songs had just filled the vast auditorium and the simultaneous fluttering of their
hand-held flags had made for a few moments a bewildering, brilliant scene of
gaycty and beauty .... The poet of Ohio's Centennial, Colonel Coates Kinney,
of Xenia, six)ke in a voice clear, strong and sonorous, and the audience signified
their appreciation of a masterly production with rounds of applause. It was a
great topic, the sublime occasion of a hundred years."
Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio,
vol. 1, 1900.
OFFICERS OF GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
W. A. Hammond, President; A. D. Chamberlain, Vice President and Curator;
Graham Bryson, Secretary; G. W. Kohn. Treasurer.
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The following was found in a scrap book kept by Ella [Adams] Engle, daughter of Charles Adams
who was the brother of Savery Adams. The origin of the article seems to appears to be a
newspaper clipping, but the name of the paper and the date of the clipping is not on the page. I am
Lisa Engle Herdahl daughter of Richard Alfred Engle who was the Great-grandson of Charles
Adams. At the end of the newspaper article in Ella Adams Engle's own handwriting it has the
following. "Charles Adams was my father, he was a brother of Savery Adams." it was then signed
by Ella Adams Engle.
PIONEER REMINISCENCES AS GATHERED FROM SAVERY ADAMS
Reader, did you ever talk with Savery Adams about "old times?" If you did not you have
missed a whole chapter of life, and the only way to catch up is to read attentively such
reminiscences as may appear in the GAZETTE as gathered from him. He is a living local
encyclopedia and a genuine "Old Virginy never tire" in relating matters of interest connected with
the early history of Waynesville, his native place. This local historian often finds his way into our
sanctum and volunteers a few points of local history and from these conversations we have
gathered information that is interesting to us and we are glad to share the pleasure it affords us to
those of our readers who are interested in the records of the place they "live, move and have their
being."
The Adams family have been associated with the history of Waynesville from an early date.
Thomas Adams, uncle to Savery located here in 1804 and taught school. In 1814 (?) Ezra
Adams father of Savery, arrived in Waynesville with his wife and one child, Isaac, a babe of six
month~old; they were accompanied by an older brother, Jebediah, with an infant daughter,
afterwards Mrs. Ridge, mother of Prof. J. C. Ridge, now Mrs. jJears, living in Beach Grove. They
had come from Bucks County, Pa., and the two families and all their worldly goods were conveyed
in a two horse wagon, the journey had occupied seven weeks.
It was a bright June day when the wagon wended it's way along what is now called
Wilmington Pike, then a mud road winding around by the land now owned by the Furnas family,
down to the river, forded where is now Wright's dam, followed the river and entered Waynesville.
A cousin of Mrs. Adams was then living in a cabin beyond where Char. A. Chapman now lives and
owns, except him the emigrants had no kith nor kin this side of the mountains. But they inquired for
Friends and were directed to the home of David Brown, then living on what is known as the
Anderson property, now owned and occupied by Dr. J.B. Hough. In the yard was a colored
woman washing and hanging up clothes, to this woman Mrs. Adams spoke, being the first woman
she had seen in the "settlement."
She was answered kindly and invited into the house to "see the folks." This colored woman
was Delia Cook, whom most of our citizens remember and whose memory they respect.
The travelers rested the night under the roof of David Brown and shared his hospitality.
Next morning David informed them that the only vacant house he knew of was an old ceibin which
for several years been used as a sheep shelter, and as he owned it they were welcome to occupy it
if they would clean it out. This cabin stood on the ground, lately owned and occupied by Capt. I.
C. Gough, now owned by I.H. Harris and occupied by Albert D. Haines. Nothing daunted Mrs.
Adams, in the spirit of a true pioneer went to work to make the old sheep cabin a cleanly and
comfortable home for herself and family.
The well on what is now the brick yard of Farr and White, was then dug and yielding a
bountiful supply of water, and from there this brave little woman carried water, heated it in a big
iron kettle and scraped and scalded and scrubbed till the old puncheon floor was bright and clean;
there was no door to the cabin but a quilt hung up served as a protection at night, in daytime the air
and sunshine were welcome. Elizabeth Brown who is now the only person living in Waynesville
who was here at that time was then old enough to "take care of the baby" while the young mother
fixed up their new found home.
Ezra soon brought the property of David Brown and remained on it two years, the first
year of which he assisted Brown in his store which he kept in the house now occupied by Caleb
Small, it being located on the corner where Needles' grocery in now kept.
At the end of two years Adams leased of David Brown the land now known as the
Hagerman farm, near Lytle and remained there until Nov. 1823 when he bought of the Crispin
Heirs, Rebecca, Mary and Rowland, the lot known as the Adams corner, now owned by J. Will
White, and moved upon it and lived there until his death in 1865, and it continued to be the home of
his faithful and brave little wife until her death, which occurred May 1883, at the advanced age of
88 years and 3 days. She was the mother of twelve children Isaac, Charles, (born in the Log cabin)
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.d Amos are still living.
Like all other pioneers this family passed through many strange and wild experiences. While
living in their first cabin they were often annoyed at night by the howling of wolves in unpleasant
proximity to their dwelling, and the father would take from the fire-place burning chunks and throw
them to scare them off; and as wolves never "stand fire" this always had the desired effect, and the
family would soon fall asleep and never dream of danger.
While living on the farm the April before moving into Waynesville Ezra Adams started back
to Bucks County, in company with Asher Brown Sr. and George Hatton, brother to the venerable
Eliza Pennington now nearly one hundred years old. Brown and Hatton took in a drove of horses
for the eastern market. They remained East until September, and during the absence of her husband
Mrs. Adams remained on the farm with four children, with no other protection than three large dogs
her nearest neighbors being the family of Asher Brown; then living on the farm now owned and
occupied by Cornelius Williamson.
This noble woman managed the farm and did all her. family work during the entire summer
and met with but one serious loss that, no less than her only cow. Savory says he well remembers
seeing his mother standing over the dead cow shedding bitter tears, but rallying her courage she
said, "well the children can't do without milk, we must have another cow." The cow was bought
and before her husband returned she had paid for it by "taking in spinning." Thus through all the
vicissitudes of her unpretentious life she ever manifested the dauntless spirit of a true woman.
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In September Ezra Adams returned bringing with him Fannie Smith, now the venerable aunt
Fannie Buttersworth, who nad come the long journey "over'the mountaxns" in a little one horse
wagon to join ner sister, Ruth, afterwards Mrs. Tomlinson, who was living in the family of David
Evans, and teaching school, and from her Joel Evans and some others now living received a part of
their education; two otn^ sisters of these first and second wives of the late Dr. Anderson, did not
come iintii years later. '
Into the lives of these pioneers was woven much of hardship, much of sorrow, much of
pleasure and some of romance, which may furnish material for succeeding sketches. Time has told
upon the place and scene of their life experiences and; many changes have taken place here where
they wrestled with the forrest for homes and culture and comfort. Ezra Adams was a chair and
spinning-wheel maker and came to Ohio expecting to follow that trade, but found a chair shop
already in operation on the lot where M. C. Liddy now lives and owns, this was carried on by
Clemens Messick; on the lot now occupied by the Waynesville High School. Robt. Cummins,
father of Mrs. Julia McComas, owned and carried on a spinning wheel factory, and these two
establishments supplied the demand among the settlers.
To-day, split bottom chairs and spinning wheels are among the relics and reminders of
"early days," and the saloon and the school house occupy the sites where these industries were
carried on. The school is one of civilization's greatest blessings, the saloon its greatest curse. The
house now occupied by Thomas Lenord then stood on the Cummins lot and was the home of the
Cimnmins family, it was afterwards the home Gibbs Kinney father of Coates Kinney, and doubtless
it was there were Coates poetic bra:i:H was iiiSpxrea oy the music of "Thti rain upon tne root."
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"art for the sake of utterance to the uttermost."
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TO AN OLD APPLE TREE
This grim old apple tree which many a May
Has greened between my window and the
morn
Seems to me thinking now in every spray
A thought that is to be a blossom born.
Those maimed limbs plead thy story;
The wounds upon thy body speak for
Thou art a veteran soldier scarred with glory,
My brave old Apple tree!
Oft hast thou borne up under
Onset of storming wind and shot of hail;
And once a sword-lunge of assailant thunder
Slashed down thy barken mail.
Old age, disease, and battle
Have scathed and crooked and crippled
all thy form,
And thy Briarean bare arms clash and rattle
Tossed in the wintry storm.
I seem to feel thee shiver,
As on thy nakedness hang rags of snow;
May charitable Spring, the gracious giver.
O'er thee her mantle throw.
She will; and sunshine spilling
From blue skies thou again shalt drink
as wine,
To feel afresh the rush of young blood thrilling
through that old heart of thine.
For in the season duly
Each year there rises youth's perennial
power
Within thee, and thou then rejoicest newly
In robes of leaf and flower.
Ay, though thy years are many
And sorrows heavy, yet from winter's
gloom
Thou issuest with the young trees, glad as any,
As quick of green and bloom.
The bluebird, warbling mellow
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Refrains, iike memory comes and calls
thy name;
And like first love, the oriole's pomp of yellow
Flits through thy shade a flame.
Thou quiverst in the sunny
June mornings to the welcoming of
song,
And bees about their business of the honey
Whisper to thee all day long.
Thus thou art blest and blessest
Thy grace of blossoms fruiting into gold;
And thus in touch with nature, thou possesses!
The art of growing old.
Coates Kinney, who lived mueh of his life in the Miami Valley (in the
Cincinnati, Springboro, Ridgeville, Waynesville, Mt. Holly, Spring Valley
and Xenia area), was a famous and very popular poet and personage during
the second half of the 19*^^ century.
He was bom near Keeuka Lake, N.Y. at Kinney's Comers on November 24,
1826. In 1840 when he was thirteen years old, his family moved to Ohio and
settled close to Springboro, Warren Co, between Ridgeville and Springboro.
He went to school in Ridgeville. He did not care to leamthe cooper's trade
and became enraptured with teaming. As a youth he was employed byJosiah
Wright in Springboro to work in his woolen-factory. He later worked inthe
saw-mill at Mt. Holly. He attended the Springboro Academy.
As a young man he taught school at Mt. Holly, Mullen's Roost and
Ridgeville. One of his young students was Dr. William Henrv Venable,
another literary light of Ohio, who became a good friend. While continuing
his teaching career, he read Law with the firm of Corwin (Thomas Corwin)
and McBumey at Lebanon, Ohio. After many years of teaching, -writing and
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Cincinnati. He also studied languages at Antioch College in Yellow
Springs, Ohio and knew Horace Mann. During the Civil War he was
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night before in Spring Valley, he composedthe poemas he walked from
Spring Valley to Mt. Holly and in the surroundingwoods ofthat tiny hamlet.
His inspiration was nature itself.
During his strugglingyears and while he was practicing Law in Cincinnati,
his family lived in Waynesville. He had married his first wife, Hannah Kelly
of Waynesville, in 1851. Sadly, she died in 1859. Their three children,
Fanny, Abbot and Hannah, had died in childhood. In 1862, he remarried.
He lived with his new wife Mary Catherine Allen in Xenia, Ohio. They had
three daughters: Myra, Lestra and Clara.
Colonel Kinney was invited to compose and deliver an ode in honor ofthe
Ohio Centennial Celebration at Columbus on September 4, 1888.
Coates Kinney's poetry is essentially religious and hopeful. Like manyof his
generation, he embraced the Liberal Protestant view of the essential goodness
of a humannature that is slowly progressing to immortality (the Kingdom of
God) on earth. Placing his hope in the spiritual progress of humanity's
rational mind (science) entwined with it's indomitable Spirit, he believed that
the human race will ever growto a greater knowledge of and relationship
with God:
We know God only as we grow to Him;
Tofeel the Power, ourselves must be the Power:
The difference ofmen and seraphim
Is growthfrom God in bud to God inflower.
Mists ofFire, 51
Kinney's sentimental 19^century style and his optimistic theological view
are no longer in vogue. His message does, however, merit a second glance as
we move out ofthe most violent and jaded centuiy in recorded history into
the 21" century. His message is simple: our words and deeds, which we can
choose and direct, create the fiiture of good or ill for the human race. Our
fears and hopes about final judgement, of Everlasting Fire or Paradise, are
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commissioned a Major and Paymaster of the U.S. Army. He left this service
in 1865 with a brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a professor of
language at Judson College in Illinois. He was an Ohio Senator from 1882-
1883. He was also a newspaper editor and owner. He owned and edited the
Xenia Torchlight (later renamed The Xenia Gazette) and the Globe Republic
in Springfield.
In 1849, Coates Kinney became famous overnight. His extremely popular
poem. Rain On the Roof, was published that year. He shared his inspiration
with his fi-iend, William Venable:
1slept one night next to the roofin the littlefarm cottage which our
folks lived in (Spring Valley, Ohio) and which has since been torn
awayand replaced. In the evening there came up a gentle rain,
which pattered on the shingle roof, two or threefeet above my head,
all the part ofthe night duringwhich I was awake. Here I lay and
conceivedthe lyric, and then went to sleep. It haunted me the next
day, which was bright and green, and glorious; and, on a walkfrom
Spring Valley down to Mt. Hollythree milesWhere I went to visit
my uncle'sfolks, I composed most ofthe poem, finishing it the same
afternoon during a sequestration ofmyselfand a ramble in the
woodsjust adjoining the townwoods now longsince cleared
away. It was the easiest production I ever wrote. It cost me no
Labor.
Afew legends developed about the place of composition ofRain On the
Roof. Three villages vied for the honor. Some claimed that Kinney wrote
the poemin Mount Holly in a little graybrick house on old Main Street. A
Mount Holly woman once told that as a child she hid in the bushes while
Coates Kinney practiced his poem in the old abandoned graveyard south of
town. People would also point out a house in Spring Valley which they
claimed to be the house in which the poem was written. Springboro, Ohio
wanted to claim to be the origin ofthe poem, too. It seems clear from the
words of Coates Kinney himself that inspired by a gentle evening rain the
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not declared in a public and literal way at a final eschaton. Our ultimate
judgment is our own, found deep inour hearts, etched hy our deeds:
They (Judgments of fire or paradise) Q,r6 ths fSCOrds Ofl ths tdblctS StcHsd
Of one's own soul by his own good and ill:
Out ofour past the heaven and hell are fetched
That shall together all ourfuture fdl.
Coates Kinney died at the Presbyterian Hospital January
25, 1904. He is buried in Miami Cemetery in Corwin,
directly east of Waynesville, Ohio. With himare his first
wife Hannah and their three children. His very
unpretentious grave stone is marked with the flag of a
G.A.R. veteran of the Civil War.
Kinney's Marker
The Published Works of Coates Kinney:
. Rain on the Roof (1849)
. Keeuka, and other Poems (1855)
Lyrics ofthe Ideal and Real (1887)
. Mists ofFire, A Trilogy (1899)
. Some Eclogs (1899)
The Unpublished Works of Coates Kinney:
A Drama ofDoubles (A novel)
Unthinkable Data ofHuman Thought (philosophical essay)
Grammar (treatise)
The English Language and Its Correct Use (essay)
Apparitions (long poem)
Books and Artieles about Coates Kinney:
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An Interpretation ofthe Life and Poetry ofCoates Kinney by Debora
May MacNeilan. Columbus, Ohio: The F.J. Heer Printing Company,
1931.
Poets ofOhio edited by Emerson Venable. Cincinnati: The Robert
Clarke Company, 1909.
"News Roamer Find Ohio's Oldest Main Street Still Redolent with
Atmosphere ofDays When Charles Dickens Passed Down the
Highway". The Dayton Daily News, November 7, 1937, p. 7ff.
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Rain on the Roof
WHEN the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres,
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a joy to press the pillow
Ofa cottage-chamber bed.
And to listen to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead!
Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start.
And a thousand recollections
Weave their bright hues into woof,
As I listen to the patter
Of the rain upon the roof.
Now in fancy comes my mother.
As she used to, years agone,
To survey her darling dreamers.
Ere she left them till the dawn;
Oh! I see her bending o'er me.
As I list to this refi"ain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter ofthe rain.
Then my little seraph sister.
With her wings and waving hair,
iioi V/iiwiUL* --
A serene, angelic pair!
Glide around my wakeful pillow.
With their praise or mild reproof,
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As I listen to the murmur
Ofthe soft rain on the roof.
And another comes to thrill me
With her eye's delicious blue;
And forget I, gazing on her.
That her heart was all untme:
I remember but to love her
>^th a rapture kin to pain.
And my heart's quick pulses vibrate
To the patter ofthe rain.
There is naught in Art's bravuras.
That can work with such a spell
In the spirit'spure, deep fountains,
Whence the holy passions well.
As that melody ofNature,
That subdued, subduing strain
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter ofthe rain.
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