John Quincy Adams, journalist, intellectual, and civil rights proponent, arrives in St. Paul to begin his new post as editor of the Western Appeal (later the Appeal), through which he championed civil rights and supported the Republican Party. Born to free parents in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1848, he was also a member of the National Afro-American Council (which met in St. Paul in 1902) and president of the Afro-American Newspaper Association. He died in St. Paul on September 3, 1922.