The following is a list of historical papers and addresses, prepared by members of the Society, or by friends of the organization. Many of these contributions have been published in the books and pamphlets issued by the Society, a few have appeared in other publications, while some remain in the Society’s archives to be published in the future:
1. The Bacons from Ireland Who Settled at Dedham, Mass., About 1640, one of whose Descendants was Killed April 19, 1775, in the Fight at West Cambridge, Battle of Lexington. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1897.) 2. The Seizure of Powder, Arms, and Stores at Fort William and Mary by Major John Sullivan and His Associates, December, 1774. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1897.) 3. The Battle of Lexington, Concord, and Cambridge, with a List of Irish Names Borne by Minute Men or Militia Participating in that Conflict. (By Edward J. Brandon, Cambridge, Mass., 1897.) 4. The Irishman Ethnologically Considered. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1897.) 5. Irish Settlers in Louisville, Ky., and Vicinity. (By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky., 1897.) 6. Five Irish Colonial Rhode Islanders. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Providence, R. I., 1897.) 7. The Irish Element Among the Founders of Lowell, Mass. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1897.) 8. The Ancestors of Gen. John Sullivan. (By Bernard Corr, Boston, Mass., 1898.) 9. The Family Name Swords in Ireland and America. (By Joseph F. Swords, Hartford, Conn., 1898.) 10. Early Irish Schoolmasters in New Hampshire. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1898.) 11. Early Irish Schoolmasters in Rhode Island. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1898.) 12. Early Irish Settlers in Kentucky. (By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky., 1898.) 13. Some Ways in Which American History is Falsified. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1898.)
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS BY THE SOCIETY.
The following is a list of books and pamphlets thus far issued under the auspices of the society:
1. The American-Irish Historical Society: What It Is and What Its Purposes Are. (Boston, Mass., 1897.) 2. The American-Irish Historical Society: What It Is and What Its Purposes Are; Together with the Names of the Officers and a List of the Members. (Boston, Mass., 1898.) 3. The “Scotch-Irish” Shibboleth Analyzed and Rejected, with Some Reference to the Present “Anglo-Saxon” Comedy. (Washington, D. C., 1898.) 4. Irish Schoolmasters in the American Colonies, 1640–1775, with a Continuation of the Subject During and After the War of the Revolution. (Washington, D. C., 1898.) 5. The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. I. (Boston, Mass., 1898.) 6. The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. II. (Boston, Mass., 1899.) 7. The Irish at Bunker Hill: A List of American Patriots Bearing Irish Names who Fought Against the British in the Action of the Seventeenth of June, 1775. (Boston, Mass., 1900.) 8. The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. III. (Boston, Mass., 1900.) 9. The Recorder. A Monthly Bulletin of the Society. Eight numbers issued. (Boston, Mass., 1901.) 10. Gen. John Sullivan and the Battle of Rhode Island. A Sketch of the Former and a Description of the Latter. (Providence, R. I., 1902.) 11. The Irish Scots and the “Scotch-Irish”; An Historical and Ethnological Monograph, with some reference to Scotia Major and Scotia Minor. To which is added a chapter on How the Irish came as Builders of the Nation. (Concord, N. H., 1902.) 12. Irish Rhode Islanders in the American Revolution; with some mention of those serving in the Regiments of Elliott, Lippit, Topham, Crary, Angell, Olney, Greene, and other noted commanders. (Providence, R. I., 1903.) 13. Early Irish in Old Albany, N. Y.; with special mention of Jan Andriessen, “De Iersman Van Dublingh.” (Boston, Mass., 1903.)
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED PAPERS TO THE SOCIETY, OR WHO HAVE MADE ADDRESSES AT MEETINGS HELD UNDER ITS AUSPICES.
- Andrews, E. Benj., president of Brown University, Providence, R. I.
- Baker, Miss Virginia, Warren, R. I.
- Barry, Hon. P. T., Chicago, Ill.
- Belknap, Rear-Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), Brookline, Mass.
- Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P. L., Canton, Mass.
- Boyle, Hon. Patrick J., mayor of Newport, R. I.
- Brady, Cyrus Townsend, Brooklyn, N. Y.
- Brandon, Edward J., city clerk of Cambridge, Mass.
- Brennan, Hon. James F., Peterborough, N. H.; a state library commissioner of New Hampshire.
- Brigham, Clarence S., librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, R. I.
- Brown, J. Stacy, city attorney of Newport, R. I.
- Capen, Elmer H., president of Tufts College, Mass.
- Carroll, Hon. Hugh J., formerly mayor of Pawtucket, R. I.
- Carter, Hon. Thomas H., United States Senator, Helena, Montana.
- Cassidy, Dr. Patrick, formerly surgeon-general and brigadier-general on staff of Governor Morris of Connecticut, Norwich, Conn.
- Chamberlain, Hon. Abiram, governor of Connecticut.
- Clarke, Joseph I. C., New York city.
- Clary, Charles H., Hallowell, Me.
- Coffey, John J., Neponset, Mass.
- Coffey, Rev. Michael J., Cambridge, Mass.
- Collins, Dr. William D., Haverhill, Mass.
- Collins, Hon. Patrick A., now mayor of Boston, Mass.
- Conaty, Rt. Rev. Thomas J., rector of the Catholic University, Washington, D. C.
- Condon, Capt. E. O’Meagher, New York city; now of New Orleans, La.
- Connolly, James, Coronado, Cal.
- Corr, Bernard, Boston, Mass.
- Crimmins, Hon. John D., New York city.
- Cummins, Thomas J., Brooklyn, N. Y.
- Cunningham, James, Portland, Me.
- Daly, Hon. Joseph F., New York city.
- Danaher, Hon. Franklin M., Albany, N. Y.
- Deady, Rev. Louis J., Newport, R. I.
- DeCosta, Rev. Dr. B. F., New York city.
- DeCourcy, Charles A., now a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Lawrence, Mass.
- Doogue, William, Boston, Mass.
- Doyle, John F., New York city.
- Doyle, Rev. Alexander P., New York city.
- Driscoll, Hon. C. T., mayor of New Haven, Conn.
- DuChaillu, Paul B., New York city.
- Emmet, Thomas Addis, M. D., grand nephew of the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet.
- English, Hon. Thomas Dunn, Newark, N. J.
- Farrelly, Rev. Father, Central Falls, R. I.
- Fitzgerald, Miss Margaret A., San Francisco, Cal.
- Fitzpatrick, Edward, Louisville, Ky.; on staff of the Times of that city.
- Flatley, P. J., Boston, Mass.
- Ford, J. D. M., instructor in Romance languages, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
- Gardiner, Asa Bird, New York city.
- Gargan, Hon. Thomas J., Boston, Mass.
- Garrettson, Hon. F. P., mayor of Newport, R. I.
- Gorman, Dennis J., Boston, Mass.
- Gorman, Hon. Charles E., Providence, R. I., formerly speaker of the Rhode Island house of representatives.
- Gorman, William, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Griffin, John, Portsmouth, N. H.
- Hall, Edward A., Springfield, Mass.
- Hall, G. Stanley, president of Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
- Harbison, Hon. Alexander, mayor of Hartford, Conn.
- Harson, M. Joseph, Providence, R. I.
- Healy, Col. John G., New Haven, Conn.
- Hennessy, M. E., Boston, Mass.; on staff of the Daily Globe, that city.
- Herrick, Hon. D. Cady, Albany, N. Y., a justice of the New York Supreme Court.
- Horigan, Cornelius, Biddeford, Me.
- Howes, Osborne, Boston, Mass.
- Jordan, Michael J., Boston, Mass.
- Kelly, William J., Kittery, Me.
- Kimball, Hon. Charles Deane, governor of Rhode Island.
- Lawler, Thomas B., New York city.
- Lawless, Hon. Joseph T., Norfolk, Va., recently secretary of state, Virginia.
- Lee, Hon. Thomas Z., Providence, R. I.
- Linehan, Hon. John C., Concord, N. H., state insurance commissioner of New Hampshire.
- Linehan, Miss Mary Lessey, Hartford, Conn.
- Linehan, Rev. Timothy P., Biddeford, Me.
- Lynn, Hon. Wauhope, New York city.
- Lyons, Dr. W. H. H., Portsmouth, N. H.
- MacDonnell, John T. F., Holyoke, Mass.
- Martin, Hon. John B., Boston, Mass.
- McAdoo, Hon. William, New York city.
- McCarthy, Patrick J., Providence, R. I.
- McCoy, Rev. John J., Chicopee, Mass.
- McGlinchey, James H., Portland, Me.
- McKeever, Capt. Samuel, U. S. A. (retired), Somerville, Mass.
- McLaughlin, Edward A., Boston, Mass.
- McNamee, Hon. John H. H., mayor of Cambridge, Mass.
- McSweeny, Rev. Edward, Bangor, Me.
- Mellen, James H., Worcester, Mass.
- Milholland, John E., New York city.
- Monaghan, Prof. J. C., University of Wisconsin.
- Monahan, Michael, New York city.
- Moran, Col. James, Providence, R. I.
- Moseley, Hon. Edward A., secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C.
- Moses, George H., Concord, N. H.
- Murray, Thomas Hamilton, Boston, Mass.
- Naphen, Congressman Henry F., Boston, Mass.
- Nelson, Rev. S. Banks, Woonsocket, R. I.
- O’Beirne, Gen. James R., New York city.
- O’Brien, Capt. Laurence, New Haven, Conn.
- O’Brien, Hon. Morgan J., New York city; a justice of the New York Supreme Court.
- O’Brien, Very Rev. Michael C., Bangor, Me.
- O’Donnell, Rev. James H., Norwalk, Conn.
- O’Driscoll, Daniel M., Charleston, S. C.
- O’Loughlin, Patrick, Brookline, Mass.
- O’Malley, Thomas F., Somerville, Mass.
- O’Neill, James L., Elizabeth, N. J.
- Patterson, Rev. George J., Boston, Mass.
- Phalen, Rev. Frank L., Worcester, Mass.
- Plunkett, Thomas, East Liverpool, O.
- Robertson, John Mackinnon, London, Eng.
- Roche, James Jeffrey, editor The Pilot, Boston, Mass.
- Rooney, John Jerome, New York city.
- Roosevelt, Hon. Theodore, then governor of New York.
- Scully, Martin, Waterbury, Conn.
- Sheahan, Dennis Harvey, Providence, R. I.
- Sherman, Rev. Andrew M., Morristown, N. J.
- Smith, Joseph, Lowell, Mass.
- Sperry, Congressman N. D., New Haven, Conn.
- Studley, Hon. John P., mayor of New Haven, Conn.
- Sullivan, Dr. James E., Providence, R. I.
- Sweeny, William M., Astoria, L. I., N. Y.
- Swords, Joseph F., Hartford, Conn.
- Taylor, Capt. John Shawe, Galway, Ire.
- Teeling, Rev. Arthur J., Lynn, Mass.
- Tierney, Dennis H., Waterbury, Conn.
- Tilson, John Q., New Haven, Conn.
- Tilton, Mayor, Portsmouth, N. H.
- Van Siclen, George E., New York city.
- Waller, Hon. Thomas M., ex-governor of Connecticut.
- Walsh, Hon. Patrick, Augusta, Ga.
- Weadock, Hon. T. A. E., Detroit, Mich.
- Williams, Prof. Alonzo, Brown University, Providence, R. I.
PRESIDENTS-GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY.
1897. Rear-Admiral George W. Meade, U. S. N., (retired), Philadelphia, Pa. Died May 4, 1897. 1897. Hon. Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C.; was elected President-General on death of Admiral Meade. 1898. Hon. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C. 1899. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.; a prominent lawyer of that city; ex-member of the Police Commission; member of the Boston Transit Commission. 1900. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass. 1901. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York city; prominent capitalist; official in banks, trust companies, and other corporations. 1902. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York city. 1903. Hon. William McAdoo, New York city; assistant secretary of the U. S. Navy under President Cleveland; prominent lawyer; ex-member of Congress. 1904. Hon. William McAdoo, New York city.