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HON. JOHN D. CRIMMINS, New York City,
President-General of the Society, 1901.
ЖУРНАЛ АМЕРИКАНСКО-ИРИНСКОГО ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА
BY
THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY
Secretary-General
VOLUME III
BOSTON, MASS.
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
1900
ВСТУПЛЕНИЕ К ТРЕТЬЕМУ ТОМУ.
Настоящим я представляю Обществу третий ежегодный том «Журнала». В этом труде зафиксирована деятельность организации за 1900 год, представлены исторические доклады, переданные в течение года для публикации, а также изложено множество других интересных материалов. Общество продолжает свой плодотворный и поступательный путь, успешно выполняя ту великую миссию, ради которой оно было создано.
T. H. M.
Бостон, шт. Массачусетс, 31 декабря 1900 г.
СОДЕРЖАНИЕ.
INTRODUCTORY TO THIRD VOLUME.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, A. D. 1900.
REVIEW OF THE YEAR.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 1900.
CELEBRATION OF THE LEXINGTON BATTLE ANNIVERSARY.
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
THE BATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND.
REV. JAMES MAC SPARRAN, IRISHMAN, SCHOLAR, PREACHER AND PHILOSOPHER, 1680–1757.
MEN OF IRISH BLOOD WHO HAVE ATTAINED DISTINCTION IN AMERICAN JOURNALISM.
IRISH PIONEERS AND BUILDERS OF KENTUCKY.
REV2. JAMES CALDWELL, A PATRIOT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
THE IRISH IN SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA, LOUISIANA AND TENNESSEE.
HUGH CARGILL, A FRIEND OF LIBERTY.
THE IRISH SETTLERS OF PELHAM, MASS.
THOMAS FAWCETT, IRISH QUAKER, AMERICAN PIONEER.
EARLY NEW HAMPSHIRE IRISH; SOME PRE-REVOLUTIONARY DENNISES, CORNELIUSES, PATRICKS AND MICHAELS.
MATTHEW WATSON, AN IRISH SETTLER OF BARRINGTON, R. I., 1722.
THE FIELD, SCOPE AND OPPORTUNITY OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
THE UNITED STATES TORPEDO-BOAT O’BRIEN.
THE SOCIETY’S FIELD IN CALIFORNIA.
THE HISTORICAL PLACE OF IRISHMEN IN CALIFORNIA.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE SOCIETY.
NECROLOGY OF THE SOCIETY.
MEMBERSHIP ROLL, AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
GOOD WORDS FOR VOLUME II OF THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY.
GENERAL INDEX.
ANALYTICAL INDEX.
Letter from Hon. John D. Crimmins, President-General of the Society.
ДОЛЖНОСТНЫЕ ЛИЦА ОБЩЕСТВА, 1900 г.
President-General,
Hon. Thomas J. Gargan,
Of the Law Firm, Gargan & Keating, Boston, Mass.
Vice-President-General,
Hon. John D. Crimmins,
40 East 68th St., New York City.
Secretary-General,
Thomas Hamilton Murray,
Editor Evening Call, 77 Main St., Woonsocket, R. I.
Treasurer-General,
Hon. John C. Linehan,
State Insurance Commissioner, Concord, N. H.
Librarian and Archivist,
Thomas B. Lawler,
New York City.
(With Ginn & Co., Publishers, Boston, New York, Chicago, London.)
ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ СОВЕТ.
The foregoing and
Джеймс Джеффри Роуч, доктор права, редактор газеты «Пилот», г. Бостон, шт. Массачусетс.
Морис Фрэнсис Иган, доктор права, доктор гражданского и канонического права, профессор английского языка и литературы Католического университета, г. Вашингтон, округ Колумбия.
Роберт Эллис Томпсон, доктор философии, президент Центральной школы повышенного типа, г. Филадельфия, шт. Пенсильвания.
Томас Аддис Эммет, доктор медицины, доктор права, внучатый племянник ирландского патриота Роберта Эммета, г. Нью-Йорк.
Достопочтенный Томас Данн Инглиш, известный писатель, бывший член Конгресса, г. Ньюарк, шт. Нью-Джерси.
Francis C. Travers, President of Travers Brothers Co., 107 Duane St., New York City.
Достопочтенный Корнелиус Т. Дрисколл, мэр г. Нью-Хейвен, шт. Коннектикут.
Стивен Дж. Геогеган, из фирмы «Гиллис энд Геогеган», Вест-Бродвей, 537–539, г. Нью-Йорк.
Джозеф Смит, секретарь Полицейского управления, г. Лоуэлл, шт. Массачусетс.
Огюст Сент-Годенс, член Национальной академии дизайна, г. Нью-Йорк.
Томас Дж. Линч, г. Огаста, шт. Мэн.
Достопочтенный Морган Дж. О'Брайен, судья Верховного суда штата Нью-Йорк.
Полковник Джеймс Армстронг, г. Чарлстон, шт. Южная Каролина.
Эдвард А. Холл, г. Спрингфилд, шт. Массачусетс.
Francis Higgins, 12 East 34th St., New York City.
Мозес Диллон, г. Эль-Пасо, шт. Техас.
John Crane, 307 West 103d St., New York City.
Джон Ф. Хейс, доктор медицины, г. Уотербери, шт. Коннектикут.
Hon. James S. Coleman, 38 East 69th St., New York City.
Полковник Генри Ф. Донован, г. Чикаго, шт. Иллинойс.
Джозеф Ф. Свордс, г. Нью-Йорк; в четвертом поколении американец, происходящий от Фрэнсиса Доусона Свордса, который был изгнан из Ирландии в 1760 году и служил в армии патриотов на протяжении всей Американской революции.
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЕ ВИЦЕ-ПРЕЗИДЕНТЫ.
Мэн — Джеймс Каннингем, Портленд.
Нью-Хэмпшир — Достопочтенный Джеймс Ф. Бреннан, Питерборо.
Вермонт — Джон Д. Ханрахан, доктор медицины, Ратленд.
Массачусетс — Осборн Хаус, Бостон.
Род-Айленд — Достопочтенный Патрик Дж. Бойл, Ньюпорт.
Коннектикут — Преподобный Джеймс Г. О'Доннелл, Уотертаун.
Нью-Йорк — Генерал Джеймс Р. О'Берн, г. Нью-Йорк.
Нью-Джерси — Достопочтенный Уильям А. М. Мак, Элизабет.
Пенсильвания — Генерал Сент-Клер А. Малхолланд, Филадельфия.
Делавэр — Полковник Джон П. Донахо, Уилмингтон.
Виргиния — Достопочтенный Джозеф Т. Лоулесс, Ричмонд.
Западная Виргиния — Полковник О'Брайен Мур, Чарлстон.
Южная Каролина — Дэниел М. О'Дрисколл, Чарлстон.
Джорджия — Полковник К. К. Сандерс, Гейнсвилл.
Огайо — Томас Б. Минахан, Колумбус.
Индиана — Высокопреподобный Эндрю Моррисси, орден Святого Креста, Нотр-Дам.
Иллинойс — П. Т. Барри, Чикаго.
Айова — Преподобный М. К. Ленихан, Маршаллтаун.
Миннесота — Джон Д. О'Брайен, Сент-Пол.
Мичиган — Достопочтенный Т. А. Э. Уедок, Детройт.
Миссури — Джулиус Л. Фой, Сент-Луис.
Теннесси — Майкл Гевин, Мемфис.
Кентукки — Эдвард Фицпатрик, Луисвилл.
Канзас — Патрик Г. Кони, Топика.
Колорадо — Дж. Э. Лоури, доктор медицины, Соприс.
Небраска — М. Д. Лонг, О'Нил.
Юта — Джозеф Геогеган, Солт-Лейк-Сити.
Техас — Генерал А. Г. Маллой, Эль-Пасо.
Орегон — Генри Э. Рид, Портленд.
Калифорния — Джеймс Коннолли, Коронадо.
* * * * *
Округ Колумбия — Патрик О'Фаррелл, Вашингтон.
ОБЗОР ГОДА.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE CAREER OF THE SOCIETY, FOR 1900, OR OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE MEMBERS.
Jan. 1. Hon. Patrick J. Boyle, state vice-president of the Society for Rhode Island, was to-day inaugurated mayor of Newport for his sixth term.
Jan. 1. Hon. James F. Leonard, of the Society, is inaugurated mayor of Lawrence, Mass.
Jan. 11. Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., of the Society, addresses a Pro-Boer meeting at Lawrence, Mass. Ex-Mayor Breen of Lawrence, another of our members, presides at the meeting.
Jan. 13. Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., just mentioned, is elected president of the Papyrus Club, Boston.
Jan. 18. Annual meeting and banquet of the Society, at Sherry’s, New York City, with addresses by Hon. Thomas H. Carter, United States senator from Montana, and other gentlemen.
Jan. 20. The New York World to-day mentions “The Cipher in the Plays and on the Tombstone,” a work by one of our members, Hon. Ignatius Donnelly. Mr. Donnelly is also the author of an “Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare,” “Atlantis, the Antediluvian World,” “Ragnarok,” “The Great Cryptogram,” “Cæsar’s Column,” and other works. He has been a member of congress, and was for two terms lieutenant-governor of Minnesota.
Jan. 23. Hon. Andrew J. White, ex-police justice and former dock commissioner, dies at his residence in New York City. He became a member of the Society, Jan. 19, 1899.
Jan. 24. Death of Hon. William F. Reddy, of the Society, Richmond, Va. He had been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Feb. 5. Article published in the New York Sun, from the pen of Secretary T. H. Murray, relative to Andrew Jackson’s ancestry.
Feb. 10. Contribution appeared in The Monitor of San Francisco, Cal., descriptive of the Society’s work and urging active interest therein. The author is James Connolly, of Coronado, the Society’s state vice-president for California.
Feb. 18. Rev. Michael Gilligan, rector of St. Joseph’s Catholic church, Medford, Mass., died to-day in Norfolk, Va. He was a member of the Society.
Feb. 20. Lieut. Martin L. Crimmins, Sixth U. S. Infantry, a member of the Society, writes an interesting descriptive letter from the Philippines. The letter was subsequently published in the New York Sun of March 13.
Feb. 24. Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Protestant Episcopal Archdeacon of Pennsylvania, and member of the Society, begins to-day, in the Philadelphia Evening Post, his serial, “The Grip of Honor.”
March. In Donahoe’s Magazine for this month is an article by T. St. John Gaffney, of the Society, on “The Alleged European Coalition Against the United States During the Spanish-American War.” The article was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form for the American Raad.
Mar. 1. Check for $50, life membership fee, received to-day from P. F. McGowan, New York City.
Mar. 3. The steamship Lucania arrived off Sandy Hook from Liverpool. Among her passengers was John E. Milholland, of New York, a member of the Society. On the passage over a British baronet bought champagne for the saloon passengers and proposed the health of the British queen and a toast to the success of the British arms in the war against the Boers. Mr. Milholland and others refused to drink the toast.
Mar. 6. Richard Ryan, of the Society, was a candidate for mayor of Rutland, Vt., in to-day’s election in that city.
Mar. 6. Capt. Patrick O’Farrell, the Society’s vice-president for the District of Columbia, participated in the banquet at Washington, D. C., of the Second Army Corps Association, he being a member of the executive committee of the Association and treasurer of the banquet committee.
Mar. 8. President McKinley to-day sent to the senate the nomination of Second Lieutenant Hugh A. Drum, Twelfth U. S. Infantry, he to be first lieutenant. This officer is a son of our late member, Capt. John Drum, Tenth U. S. Infantry, killed in battle near Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898.
Mar. 9. William Hopkins, member of the Society, is elected a vice-president of the Boston Press Club.
Mar. 11. Gen. James R. O’Beirne, state vice-president for New York, delivered an address at the Hyperion theatre, New Haven, Ct., to-night, on the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet.
Mar. 12. The editor of the Review of Reviews writes for information concerning the Society.
Mar. 17. Anniversary of the evacuation of Boston by the British. The anniversary was observed to-night under the auspices of the South Boston Citizens Association. Hon. John B. Martin, a member of our Society, presided.
Mar. 17. Col. James Armstrong, Charleston, S. C., member of our executive council, responded to a toast at a banquet of the Hibernian Society in Charleston to-night.
Mar. 17. Hon. James A. O’Gorman, of the Society, presided to-night at a banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York City.
Mar. 17. Annual meeting at Boston of the Charitable Irish Society (founded, 1737). Five members of our Society were elected to offices in the organization, as follows, viz.: Edmund Reardon, president; Dennis J. Gorman, vice-president; P. J. Flatley, M. A. Toland, and M. J. Jordan, directors.
Mar. 17. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, governor of New York, a member of the Society, delivered an address to-night at a banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Albany, N. Y.
Mar. 17. Judge John J. McDonough, of Fall River, Mass., and Mayor Boyle, of Newport, R. I., both members of our Society, participated in a banquet at Fall River this evening.
Mar. 17. President Daniel M. O’Driscoll, of St. Patrick’s Society, Charleston, S. C., and state vice-president for South Carolina of our Society, presided at a banquet in Charleston to-night.
Mar. 18. The Boston Sunday Globe, to-day, had a symposium on “Can Ireland ever be Reconciled to the British Crown?” Two of our members, P. J. Flatley and Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, both of Boston, contributed to the discussion.
Mar. 18. In the New York World, to-day, appeared a contribution from Hon. Joseph F. Daly, of the Society, on “The Fallibility of Circumstantial Evidence,” a judicial study.
Mar. 19. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle had an editorial to-day entitled “A Sad Anniversary.” It related to the death, March 19, 1899, of Hon. Patrick Walsh, ex-United States senator from Georgia. Mr. Walsh was also editor and proprietor of the Augusta Chronicle, and manager of the Southern Associated Press. At the time of his death he was state vice-president of our Society for Georgia.
April 3. Dr. Sherwin Gibbons of Lexington, Mass., a member of the patriotic celebration committee for the battle anniversary on the 19th inst., writes to the Society that Christopher S. Ryan of Lexington has been appointed a special committee to receive the members of our Society on their arrival in town that day.
April 10. Hon. William A. M. Mack, of the Society, is to-day reëlected mayor of Elizabeth, N. J.
April 12. The city council of New Bedford, Mass., this evening, reëlected two of our members to official positions, viz.: City auditor, Charles J. McGurk; inspector of buildings, Edmund O’Keefe.
April 16. Thomas Carroll, Peabody, Mass., a member of the Society, reads a paper before the Essex Institute of Salem, Mass., on “Bands and Band Music in Salem.” In his paper he mentions the great musician, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, who, in December, 1854, was elected leader of a Salem band, taking the position in 1855. He also mentions William Carroll and James Byrne, two other band leaders in Salem, and alludes to the “Jackson Musketeers, of Lowell, commanded by Capt. Patrick H. Proctor.”
April 19. The Society observed the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, Concord, and Cambridge, Mass., by a visit to Lexington, where it deposited a laurel wreath to the memory of the patriots who fell, April 19, 1775.
April 19. In the evening succeeding the event just mentioned, the Society held a banquet at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston. Among the guests were President Capen of Tufts College and President Hall of Clark University, Mass. Each made an address.
April 19. At the banquet of the Society at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston, this evening, Thomas F. O’Malley of Somerville, Mass., read an historical paper on “Hugh Cargill,” an Irishman of Concord, Mass., who participated in the battle of April 19, 1775.
April 22. M. le Comte Margerin de Cremont, Paris, France, writes to Secretary T. H. Murray. M. de Cremont is president of the Association Artistique et Litteraire de Saint-Patrice, of Paris. He presents his regards to our Society.
May. Hon. James F. Brennan, Peterborough, N. H., state vice-president of the Society, has a paper in this month’s issue of the Granite Monthly on the “Peterborough Town Library.” The paper is illustrated and of great interest and value.
May 3. Letter of inquiry written to Secretary Murray, by Dr. John B. Cosgrove of Worcester, Mass. He seeks information relative to the Irish Bacons who settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1640.
May 8. At a convention of the Gaelic League of America, which opened in Boston on this date, Stephen J. Richardson, of New York, a member of our Society, was chosen national president of the League.
May 9. Thomas F. O’Malley, Somerville, Mass., of our Society, lectured before the Somerville Historical Society this evening on “Curiosities of the Colonial Laws.”
May 10. Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of the Society, was nominated at Cincinnati, O., to-day, for vice-president of the United States.
May 11. A New Haven, Ct., member of the Society, Hon. James P. Bree, is chosen national secretary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the latter’s convention in Boston.
May 19. The Boston Globe of this date publishes an interesting notice of the Society’s second annual volume, the notice having been written by M. E. Hennessy of the Globe’s staff, who is also a member of the Society.
May 21. Secretary Murray to-day received a check for $50 from the Knights of St. Patrick, of San Francisco, Cal. This is a life membership fee for the Knights, the latter having voted to affiliate with the Society. The check was forwarded through John Mulhern of 124 Market St., San Francisco.
May 27. Eugene T. McCarthy, Lynn, Mass., of the Society, died. He was a well-known and highly esteemed lawyer and a leader among the members of the Essex county bar.
May 27. Rev. P. J. Kavanagh, rector of St. Bridget’s church, Lexington, Mass., a member of the Society, observed to-day the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
May 30. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, chairman of the Boston citizens committee to receive the Boer envoys, meets the latter at Providence, R. I., and escorts them to Boston; with him were James Jeffrey Roche, also of the Society, and others. The envoys were Messrs. Fischer, Wessels and Wolmarans.
June 1. Notice issued to the members of the Society for an observance of the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, the observance to take place in Boston on Monday, the 18th inst., the anniversary itself falling on Sunday, 17th inst.
June 1. John F. Doyle, 45 William St., New York city, forwards $50 to the Society, life membership fee.
June 1. A number of our members in Springfield, Mass., were on the committee to receive the Boer envoys in that city this afternoon. The members referred to included City Solicitor Wm. G. McKechnie, Ex-Postmaster John H. Clune, Dr. Philip Kilroy and James B. Carroll.
June 4. William H. O’Hearn, M. D., a Lawrence, Mass., member of the Society, died in that city.
June 9. The Charlestown (Mass.) Enterprise, of this date, contains a splendid article relative to the Society’s programme for the Bunker Hill anniversary celebration on the 18th inst.
June 10. Daniel B. Kelley, of the Society, died to-day at his home in Haverhill, Mass. He was a graduate of Yale University, and a lawyer by profession.
June 10. The Boston Sunday Globe, to-day, contains the Society’s programme for the Bunker Hill celebration on the 18th inst.
June 14. Under this date, the Catholic Sentinel of Portland, Oregon, publishes an appreciative notice of the Society and its work.
June 18. Celebration to-day, by the Society, of the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. In the morning a laurel wreath was placed on one of the memorial tablets at Charlestown, and an address was delivered by Thomas F. O’Malley, of Somerville, Mass. In the evening the Society held a banquet at the United States Hotel, Boston.