The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. II, 1899

The Catholics of Ireland were the only people of Europe who had at this time so great a necessity for leaving their country. It is a well established fact that during the greate...

The Scotchmen who came to Ireland, and from whom some of the pioneers of this town trace their ancestry, landed on that Emerald Isle, as our town history records it, in 1610, mo...

Great talents are seldom transmitted from one generation to another, yet certain characteristics which are physiological rather than psychological, may mark the branches of a co...

Another grandson of Mrs. Taylor, Dr. James Ervin Godfrey, was educated in Paris and became a surgeon in the Confederate army, with the rank of major. He married in Madison, Ga.,...

In 1850—quite half a century ago—a committee was appointed to raise a fund of $125,000 for the university. President Wayland was then at the head of the institution. Among the s...

Among the Texans who distinguished themselves in that war in the Confederate army were: Col. James Bowland, Maj. Joseph A. Carroll, Gen. Lawrence Sullivan Ross; Colonels: Hugh M...

As a recognition of what had been done, Sullivan and his troops received the thanks of Congress, and were complimented in General Orders by Washington. At the conclusion of his...

A. Fred Brown. Thomas R. Hall. William H. Hume. Frederick T. Hume. John Connelly. James F. Minturn. John C. McGuire. John Kirkpatrick. William J. Farrell. T. S. Danahy. C. H. Co...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Five Nations, better known later as the Six Nations, was the most powerful confederacy of Indians in North America. The governor of the prov...

Those butchered with Fannin’s men were—Matthew Byrne, Daniel Buckley, Matthew Eddy, John Fagan, John Gleason, John James, John Kelly, John McGloin, Dennis McGowen, Dennis Mahone...

A subscription of $100 to the publication fund was announced from Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet of New York. It was stated that the torpedo boat _O’Brien_ would probably be launched du...

“One of these bureaus was later owned by his granddaughter, Matilda Rathbun, in Mossup Valley, and highly prized. The other came into possession of his grandson, Albert Tyler, n...

Who of Irish birth or descent can but read the rosters on sea and shore with a discriminating eye, to find his heart aflame with pride at the splendid and unanswerable percentag...

Born in Cambridge, Mass., 1840; during the Civil War enlisted in 28th Massachusetts Regiment; was successively commissioned Lieutenant, Captain, Major, and Lieutenant-Colonel; s...

Who fears to claim the Irish name? Who will forswear his blood? Who holds in shame the deeds and fame Of Emmet, Grattan, Flood? Their hearts held true through death and rue, Thr...

Linehan, Hon. John C., Treasurer-General of the Society; Paper on “Some Pre-Revolutionary Irishmen,” 32, 202; on “The Irish Pioneers of Texas,” 120, 203; Other Mention, 5, 12, 1...

Ireland, Captain Vernon Contracts with David Selleck and Mr. Leader to supply them with 250 Women and 300 men of the Irish Nation ... to Transplant them into New England, 64, 65.

It was not, however, until after the close of the Civil War that the opportunity arrived. In 1865 the Fenian congress assembled in Philadelphia to decide upon the best means to...

1899. October. Reitz, secretary of state for the Transvaal, announces the appointment of Gen. James R. O’Beirne, New York city, as commissioner extraordinary to represent the Tr...

=Gargan, Thomas J.=, ex-President Boston Charitable Irish Society (founded 1737); delivered the oration for the city, July 4, 1885; served several terms in the Massachusetts Leg...

=O’Neil, Rev. J. L.= (O. P.), 871 Lexington Avenue, New York City. This is a life membership standing to the credit of “The Editor of _The Rosary Magazine_.” Father O’Neil was t...

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1897. Feb. 9. Hon. William McAdoo, assistant secretary of the U. S. navy, Washington, D. C., thanks the Society for having elected him vice-president for New Jersey, his residen...

1898. June 30. First field day of the Society. Held at Newcastle, N. H., with headquarters at the Hotel Wentworth. The exercises in the evening were presided over by Hon. John C...

Smith, Joseph, of Lowell, Mass, Letter from Jeremiah Curtin to, 97; Pro-Boer Resolutions by, 118, 119; Paper on “The Whistlers” by, 167; Other Mention, 5, 10, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25...