The late George J. West, the eminent lawyer, the able legislator, the earnest friend of public education, was also a graduate of Brown. He was born in Ireland.
Nor should we forget that other graduate, Hon. Augustus S. Miller, who became speaker of the Rhode Island house of representatives. He himself has told me of his paternal Irish ancestry.
Sarah E. Doyle, on whom the university recently conferred a degree, likewise should not be overlooked. Eminent honor has she reflected on her Irish father.
And so I conclude. I have endeavored in this paper to show that in the history of Brown there is an Irish chapter and one of which we may be proud; one, too, of which the university may be proud. I have by no means exhausted the subject, which is capable of much additional development.
HON. C. T. DRISCOLL,
Mayor of New Haven, Conn.
HON. JEREMIAH CROWLEY,
Mayor of Lowell, Mass.
REV. JAMES H. O’DONNELL,
Watertown, Conn.