US 1926 NIGHT AIR MAIL FDC 628 Pair w/plate# 627 w/plate#, C F A CYRUS F ADAMS

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A good U S NIGHT AIR MAIL FDC cover, with a SCOTT 627 w/plate #, a pair of SCOTT 628 w/plate #….
Cover sent from Chicago, Illinois by C. F. A., CYRUS FIELD ADAMS,
July 18, 1858 – February 18, 1942, was a Republican civil rights activist, author, teacher, newspaper manager and businessman. Adams was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was one of five children to Henry Adams and Margaret P. Corbin Adams. His father was a minister of First Baptist churches in Louisville where he worked to establish the first black Baptist churches and taught educational services in church. He was a chairman of the General Association of Colored Baptists.[2] Cyrus worked with one of his two brothers, John Q. Adams, in managing his first of many newspapers called Bulletin in Louisville from 1879 to 1885. He served as president of the Washington Philatelic Society and wrote his book, The National Afro-American Council of which he was secretary of that Council. He was appointed to the job of Assistant Register of the United States Treasury by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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