Issued at Boston, Mass.,
Dec. 26, 1896.
In response to this call, fifty gentlemen met at the Revere House on Wednesday, January 20, and organized the American-Irish Historical Society by signing the following agreement:
“We, the undersigned, by our subscription herewith, agree with the other subscribers hereto to organize ourselves into a body to be known as the American-Irish Historical Society of the United States, whose object shall be the study of American history and whose special line of work shall be the history of the Irish element in the composition of the American people, and the investigation, record and publication of the influence of that element in the up-building of the nation.”
Thomas Hamilton Murray, Lawrence, Mass.
James Jeffrey Roche, Boston, Mass.
Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass.
Edward A. Hall, Springfield, Mass.
Bernard E. Donigan, Lawrence, Mass.
Timothy P. Sullivan, Concord, N. H.