was used on railway trains, and especially in the Pullman palace
cars, until it was supplanted by the Pintsch light. He was born in
County Meath, Ireland, 1832; died at his residence, 147 West 121st
Street, New York, March 6.
LINEHAN, HON. JOHN C., Penacook (Concord), N. H. He was state
insurance commissioner of New Hampshire; a founder of the
American-Irish Historical Society and treasurer-general of the same
from its organization in January, 1897, to August, 1905, when he
resigned owing to ill health. Commissioner Linehan was born in
Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, Feb. 9, 1840, and came to this
country in 1849. He was a son of John and Margaret (Foley) Linehan.
He enlisted in August, 1861, in the band of the Third New Hampshire
Volunteers and in after years was prominently identified with the
Grand Army of the Republic, holding various offices therein. He
served as a councilman and alderman of Concord, was chosen a member
of the executive council of the state of New Hampshire to serve
during the term of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer in 1887 and 1888. He was
appointed trustee for the state industrial school by Gov. Samuel W.
Hale in 1884, and except for a brief interval of a few months served
continually since. He was secretary of the board for several years,
and since 1897 was its president. He was also one of the committee
to select the location for the Concord soldiers’ monument, as well
as to select its design and inscription. He was appointed insurance
commissioner of New Hampshire for three years by Gov. David H.
Goodell, on Sept. 28, 1890. He was reappointed in 1893 by Gov. John
B. Smith, in 1896 by Gov. Charles A. Busiel, and in 1899 by Gov.
Frank W. Rollins. His record as insurance commissioner is well
known. He was fearless and conscientious in the performance of his
duties and received the commendations of his superiors, the
governors and councils, as well as of the people of the state. His
management of the insurance department was highly commended, and
throughout the country he bore the reputation of being an honest,
fearless, conscientious and capable public servant. A pamphlet
published by the United States government in 1894, in which was
printed the argument of Hon. John L. Thomas, assistant
attorney-general, for the post office department, in the case of the
United States v. the National Investment Company, contained 19 pages
of extracts from Commissioner Linehan’s reports for the years
1891–’92–’93. He was one of the charter members of William I. Brown
Post, G. A. R., and its first commander, filling the position over
two years. He was chosen to represent the Department of New
Hampshire, G. A. R., at the National Encampment in Albany in 1878,
and a member of the national Council of Administration in 1880–81.
He was elected department commander of New Hampshire in 1883 and
1884, and was appointed a member of the National Pension Committee,
serving until 1887, when he was unanimously chosen junior
vice-commander-in-chief, G. A. R. He was president of the New
Hampshire Veteran Association in 1885 and 1886, and from its
institution, with the exception of several years, its musical
director. When his candidacy for the office of commander-in-chief at
the annual G. A. R. encampment in Cincinnati in 1898 was before his
comrades throughout the country, it received the heartiest
indorsement, and when he withdrew there was much regret. He was
elected one of the board of directors of the Gettysburg Battlefield
Monument Association, and placed on the Executive Committee in 1884.
He was a trustee of the Loan & Trust Savings Bank of Concord, a
member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Knights of Columbus,
and of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. He was a steady
contributor to weeklies and periodicals. He contributed a chapter,
_The Irish in New Hampshire_, to McClintock’s History of New
Hampshire, also a chapter to the History of the First New Hampshire
Regiment, on _The Irish of New Hampshire in the Civil War_, and a
chapter to the History of the Seventeenth New Hampshire Regiment, on
_Music and Songs of the War_. He has written many sketches on the
early Irish settlers in the thirteen colonies, which have been
published in papers and magazines. Several papers from his pen have
appeared in the publications of the American-Irish Historical
Society. He received a degree from Dartmouth College in 1887. He was
also in demand as a speaker and lecturer, and had spoken more or
less during every political campaign since 1884. He was married to
Mary E. Pendergast by the Rev. John O’Donnell, in Nashua, N. H.,
Jan. 2, 1864. Of the children born to them, four survive—Margaret,
now Sister Mary Joseph, of the Order of Mercy; John Joseph, Timothy
Patrick and Henry Francis. Commissioner Linehan died Sept. 19, 1905.
NAPHEN, HON. HENRY F., Boston, Mass. He was a native of Ireland, and
was born in 1852. He came to this country and was educated in Boston
and Lowell, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University with the
degree of LL. B., and also took a special course at that institution
as resident LL. B., later continuing law studies at Boston
University. He was elected a member of the Boston School Committee
for three years, and at the end of that period declined a
renomination. In 1885 and 1886 he represented the Fifth Suffolk
District in the State Senate. In 1898 he was elected to Congress in
the Tenth Massachusetts District. Throughout his first term he made
memorable speeches on the Porto Rican question, the trusts, the
Philippine question, improvement of Boston harbor, and many other
important measures. Renominated by his party in 1900, Congressman
Naphen was reëlected by a majority of more than 7,200 votes, a
remarkable victory. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company, Boston Athletic Association, City Point Catholic
Association, Charitable Irish Society, Catholic Union, Knights of
St. Rose, Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, the Knights of
Columbus, and other societies; was a director and clerk of the board
of directors of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and a vice-president of
the Working Boys’ Home. He was a bail commissioner for the County of
Suffolk, and was also an honorary member of Dahlgren Post 2, G. A.
R., and Benj. Stone Post 68, G. A. R. He died in Boston in June.
TRAVERS, FRANCIS C., New York City. He was born in that city, and was
the founder of the house of Travers Brothers Company, manufacturers
of, and dealers in, twine and cordage; was president of the company;
was also a director of the Columbia National Life Insurance Co., a
trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, vice-president of the
Merchants’ Trust Co., and was a member of the New York Friendly Sons
of St. Patrick, the Catholic Club, and other prominent
organizations. He was an intimate personal friend of President
Theodore Roosevelt, and was very highly esteemed by the latter. Mr.
Travers died at his home in New York, March 18.
WALSH, JAMES A., Lewiston, Me. He was resident agent for the Lewiston
Bleachery and Dye Works, where he had been located for some twelve
years. He died in Lewiston Feb. 7. aged 53 years.
MEMBERSHIP ROLL
OF THE
AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
[For officers of the Society see pages 5, 6 and 7.]
=Adams, Hon. Samuel=, president and treasurer of the Adams Dry Goods
Co., 339–355 Sixth Avenue, New York City; director, Garfield
National Bank, New York; member of the New York Chamber of Commerce;
an ex-senator of Colorado.
=Adams, T. Albeus=, president of the Gansevoort Bank, Fourteenth
Street and Ninth Avenue, New York City; also president of Adams &
Co.; president of the Adams Bros. Co.; president of the Manhattan
Refrigerating Co.; director, Mercantile National Bank.
=Ahern, John=, 5 Highland Street, Concord, N. H.
=Allen, Rt. Rev. Edward P.= (D. D.), Mobile, Ala., bishop of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Mobile.
=Aspell, John= (M. D.), 139 West 77th Street, New York City; member of
the Academy of Medicine; of the County Medical Association, and of
the Celtic Medical Society; recently president of the latter;
visiting surgeon to St. Vincent’s Hospital.
=Bannin, Michael E.=, of Converse, Stanton & Co., drygoods commission
merchants, 83 and 85 Worth Street, New York City; member of the
Merchants Association, New York; director, the Emigrant Industrial
Savings Bank; director, the Catholic Summer School (Cliff Haven);
member of the Merchants and Catholic clubs, New York, of the Montauk
Club, Brooklyn, and of the Brooklyn Arts and Science Institute;
director, the Columbian National Life Insurance Co.; director,
American Investment Securities Co.
=Bannon, Henry G.=, 107 East 55th Street, New York City; president of
the Irish National Club; secretary, Celtic-American Publishing Co.
=Barrett, Michael F.=, of Barrett Bros., wholesale and retail dealers
in teas, coffees, etc., 308 Spring Street and 574 Hudson Street, New
York City.
=Barry, Hon. Patrick T.=, 87–97 South Jefferson Street, Chicago, Ill.
(Life member of the Society); advertising manager, Chicago Newspaper
Union; director, First National Bank of Englewood, Ill.; director,
The _Chicago Citizen_ Company; has been a member of the State
Legislature of Illinois; prominently identified with educational
interests.
=Barry, Rev. Michael=, Oswego, N. Y.
=Baxter, Rev. James J.= (D. D.), 9 Whitmore Street, Boston, Mass.
=Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P. L.=, Canton, Mass.; formerly chancellor of
the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston; a director of the Bunker
Hill Monument Association.
=Bourlet, John W.=, of the Rumford Printing Co., Concord, N. H.
=Boyle, Hon. Patrick J.=, now serving his eleventh term as mayor of
Newport, R. I.
=Brady, Rev. Cyrus Townsend= (LL. D.), 455 East 17th Street, Flatbush,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; member of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Sons
of the Revolution, of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and of
other patriotic organizations; chaplain of the First Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain; formerly Protestant Episcopal
archdeacon of Pennsylvania; author of _For Love of Country_, _For
the Freedom of the Sea_, _Stephen Decatur_, _Commodore Paul Jones_,
_Border Fights and Fighters_, and other works.
=Brady, Owen J.=, with The H. B. Claflin Co., 224 Church Street, New
York City.
=Brandon, Edward J.=, city clerk, Cambridge, Mass.
=Brann, Rev. Henry A.= (D. D.), 141 East 43d Street, New York City
(Life member of the Society).
=Bree, Hon. James P.=, lawyer, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.;
state auditor of Connecticut; recently a senator.
=Brennan, Hon. James F.=, lawyer, Peterborough, N. H.; a trustee of
the New Hampshire State Library.
=Brennan, James F.=, contractor, 2 Garden Street, New Haven, Conn.
=Brennan, P. J.=, 788 West End Avenue, New York City.
=Brierly, Frank=, 268 West 131st Street, New York City.
=Broderick, William J.=, 52 Morton Street, New York City.
=Brosnahan, Rev. Timothy=, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Waltham, Mass.
=Buckley, Andrew=, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.
=Burke, Robert E.=, recently city solicitor, Newburyport. Mass.
=Burr, William P.=, lawyer, 35 Nassau Street, New York City.
=Butler, T. Vincent=, with R. G. Dun & Co., New York City.
=Buttimer, Thomas H.=, lawyer, Hingham and Boston, Mass.
=Byrne, C. E.=, of the C. E. Byrne Piano Co., East 41st Street, New
York City.
=Byrne, Maj. John=, 45 Wall Street, New York City; director, Detroit
City Gas Co.; president, Shawmut Coal and Coke Co.; chairman Board
of Directors, Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern R. R. Co.; president,
Kersey Mining Co.; president, Kersey R. R. Co.; chairman Board of
Directors, Shawmut Mining Co.; trustee, Emigrant Industrial Savings
Bank of New York City.
=Byrne, Joseph M.=, insurance, 800 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
=Byrne, Rt. Rev. William= (D. D., V. G.), rector of St. Cecilia’s
Church, St. Cecilia Street, Boston, Mass.
=Cahill, John H.=, 15 Dey Street, New York City.
=Cahill, M. J.=, dry goods merchant, Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass.
=Cahill, Thomas M.= (M. D.), 40 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.; son of
the late Col. Thomas W. Cahill who commanded the Ninth Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry (an Irish regiment), in the Civil War.
=Calnin, James=, 101–107 Lakeview Avenue, Lowell, Mass.
=Cannon, Thomas H.=, of the law firm Cannon & Poage, Stock Exchange
Building, Chicago, Ill.
=Carbray, Hon. Felix=, Benburb Place, Quebec, Canada; member of the
Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries,
Ireland; member of the Quebec Harbor Commission and of the Quebec
Board of Trade; consul for Portugal at Quebec, and dean of the
Consular Corps; trustee of St. Patrick’s Church, and of St.
Bridget’s Asylum; has represented his district in the parliament of
the Province of Quebec. He was one of the pioneers in the lumber
trade between the St. Lawrence and South America; has engaged in the
general commission and shipping business, and has been a member of
the successive firms: Carbray & Routh; Carbray, Routh & Co.; and
Carbray, Son & Co.
=Carmody, T. F.=, lawyer, Waterbury, Conn.
=Carney, Michael=, of M. Carney & Co., Lawrence, Mass.
=Carroll, Edward=, Leavenworth National Bank, Leavenworth, Kansas.
=Carroll, Edward R.=, 333 East 51st Street, New York City; clerk’s
office, Court of General Sessions of the Peace, City and County of
New York.
=Carroll, John L.=, 18 State Street, Newark, N. J.
=Carter, Patrick=, real estate, mortgages and insurance, 32
Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.
=Carter, Hon. Thomas H.=, Helena, Mont.; a United States senator.
=Casey, Michael=, of Casey & Bacon, wholesale grocers, Pittsfield,
Mass.
=Cassidy, John J.=, 907 Adams Street, Wilmington, Del.
=Cassidy, Patrick= (M. D.), Norwich, Conn.; was surgeon-general on the
staff of Gov. Luzon B. Morris of Connecticut, ranking as
brigadier-general.
=Chittick, Rev. J. J.=, Hyde Park, Mass.
=Clancy, Laurence=, dry goods merchant, West Bridge Street, Oswego, N.
Y.; trustee, Oswego County Savings Bank; director, electric street
railway; member, Normal school board; has repeatedly declined a
nomination for mayor of Oswego.
=Clare, William F.=, lawyer, 149 Broadway, New York City.
=Clark, Rev. James F.=, New Bedford, Mass.
=Clarke, James=, of James Clarke & Co., booksellers and publishers, 3,
5 and 7 West 22d Street, New York City.
=Clarke, Joseph I. C.=, Sunday editor, New York _Herald_, Herald
Square, New York City.
=Clary, Charles H.=, Hallowell, Me.; a descendant of John Clary, “of
Newcastle, province of New Hampshire,” who married Jane Mahoney, of
Georgetown, Me., 1750. Four children were born to them before 1760.
Mr. Clary of Hallowell, Me., here mentioned, was one of the founders
of the Clary Reunion Family which meets annually.
=Cockran, Hon. W. Bourke=, 31 Nassau Street, New York City; a member
of Congress. (Life member of the Society.)
=Coffey, John J.=, Neponset (Boston), Mass.; served during the Civil
War in the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry (the Faugh-a-Ballagh
regiment), which formed part of Meagher’s Irish Brigade, First
Division, Second Corps; participated in the valorous charges of the
brigade against the Confederates at Marye’s Heights; was wounded at
Gettysburg and still carries the bullet in his body. His brother
Michael J., was color sergeant of the Irish flag of the regiment and
carried it until he fell mortally wounded at the second battle of
Bull Run.
=Coffey, Rev. Michael J.=, East Cambridge, Mass.
=Coghlan, Rev. Gerald P.=, 2141 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
=Cohalan, Daniel F.=, lawyer, 271 Broadway, New York City.
=Coleman, James S.=, 38 East 69th Street, New York City; of Coleman,
Breuchaud & Coleman.
=Coleman, John=, capitalist, Louisville, Ky.
=Collins, James M.=, 6 Sexton Avenue, Concord, N. H.
=Collins, Hon. John S.=, Gilsum, N. H.; manufacturer of woolens; an
ex-state senator of New Hampshire.
=Collins, William D.= (M. D.), Haverhill, Mass.
=Conaty, Bernard=, 30 Cypress Street, Providence, R. I.
=Conaty, Rev. B. S.=, 340 Cambridge Street, Worcester, Mass.
=Conaty, Rt. Rev. Thomas J.= (D. D.), Los Angeles, Cal., bishop of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles.
=Condon, Edward O’Meagher=, U. S. Court House and Postoffice,
Nashville, Tenn.; connected with the office of the U. S. Supervising
Architect, Washington, D. C., as an inspector of public buildings;
served in the Union army during the Civil War.
=Coney, Patrick H.=, lawyer, 316 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kan. He
entered the Union army in 1863, at the age of 15 years, enlisting in
the One Hundred and Eleventh New York Infantry. He was detailed as
dispatch bearer on General McDougall’s staff, promoted as an orderly
dispatch bearer on Gen. Nelson A. Miles’ staff, served in this
capacity on to Appomattox and Lee’s surrender, and was transferred
June 5, 1865, to Company H, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. He
served until October 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at
Hart’s Island, N. Y. He was wounded at the battle of Peach Orchard
in front of Petersburg, Va., on June 16, 1864, and rejoined his
command from the hospital after sixty days’ convalescence. In
addition to his law practice, he is general manager of the American
Investment and Development Co., which is engaged in the promotion
and development of 11,000 acres of mineral, gas and oil lands in
Benton County, Mo. Gen. Nelson A. Miles is president of the company.
=Conlon, William L.=, Portsmouth, N. H.
=Connery, William P.=, Wheeler and Pleasant Streets, Lynn, Mass.;
recently candidate for mayor of Lynn.
=Connolly, Capt. James=, Coronado, Cal. He was born in County Cavan,
Ireland, 1842; came to this country when he was but ten years of
age, and spent much of his youth at East Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass. His
early love for the sea was gratified later in life when he became
captain of some of the finest deep-water ships sailing from
Baltimore, Boston and elsewhere. His first command was the bark _May
Queen_, a regular Baltimore and Rio packet, 1872. He then had
command of the ship _Pilgrim_ of Boston, and made several voyages to
the East Indies. In 1884 he was given command of the _Charger_, a
larger and finer ship than the _Pilgrim_, and sailed to ports in
Japan. He next had command of the _South American_, “the Commodore’s
ship,” of the Hastings fleet (Boston), and took her to Australia and
other parts. He made several record voyages during his career, and
some of these records still stand, having never been equalled. On
one occasion he was wrecked off the coast of Africa; he and his wife
upon being rescued were hospitably entertained by the Boers of the
adjacent country. Returning to East Dennis, Mass., his wife’s health
became poor and so he removed with her to Coronado, Cal., hoping
that the change of climate would benefit her, but she died in 1901.
She had accompanied her husband on several of his voyages, and had
with him visited many parts of the world. Captain Connolly has
written much and entertainingly. He has at present in manuscript
form a novel of ocean life entitled _The Magic of the Sea_.
=Connolly, Rev. Arthur T.=, Center and Creighton Streets, Roxbury
(Boston), Mass.
=Connor, Michael=, 509 Beech Street, Manchester, N. H.
=Conway, James L.=, 113 Worth Street, New York City.
=Conway, Matt=, of Conway & Kessler, real estate, loans, exchange and
insurance, 405 Laughlin Building, Los Angeles, Cal.
=Cooke, Rev. Michael J.=, Fall River, Mass (Life member of the
Society.)
=Cooney, Brig.-Gen. Michael=, U. S. A. (retired), 500 T Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
=Corcoran, John H.=, dry goods merchant, 587 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, Mass.
=Coughlin, John=, 177 Water Street, Augusta, Me.
=Cox, Michael F.= (M. D., M. R. I. A.), 26 Merrion Square, Dublin,
Ireland.
=Cox, Michael H.=, 54 Commerce Street, Boston, Mass.
=Cox, William T.=, 12 South Second Street, Elizabeth, N. J., owner of
Cox’s Towing Line; for some years chairman of the fire commissioners
of Elizabeth; ex-chief of the Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Department.
=Coyle, Rev. James=, Taunton, Mass.
=Coyle, Rev. John D.=, 79 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
=Crane, John=, 8 & 10 Bridge Street, New York City; of the firm Crane
& MacMahon, manufacturers of wheels, carriage woodstock, and
hardwood lumber. Among offices held by him may be mentioned:
director of the Ganesvoort Bank, New York; trustee of Emigrant
Industrial Savings Bank; president of the Irish Emigrant Society;
president of Ascension Conference, Society of St. Vincent de Paul;
member of the Superior Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul;
chairman of the Finance Committee for Special Work, of the same
society; vice-president of the Virginia and North Carolina Wheel
Co., Richmond, Va.; vice-president of the St. Marys Spoke and Wheel
Co., of St. Marys, Ohio; trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors Home,
Bath, N. Y.; president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee.
He is also a member of the New York Commandery, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and
of other organizations. He was a commissioned officer during the
Civil War in the Sixth and Seventeenth Wisconsin Regiments of
Infantry, saw four years of very active service, and was regimental
and brigade adjutant for a considerable period.
=Creagh, Rev. John T.= (J. U. L., S. T. L., J. C D.), Catholic
University, Washington, D. C.; associate professor of canon law.
=Creamer, Walter H.=, 4 Prescott Place, Lynn, Mass. His
great-grandfather, Edward Creamer, was born in Kinsale, Ireland,
1756, was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1784
settled in Salem, Mass. He was a physician there. This Edward had a
son George who married Hannah Gardner whose mother was Mary
Sullivan, a sister of Gen. John Sullivan of the Revolution and of
Gov. James Sullivan of Massachusetts. Walter H. Creamer, here
mentioned, is a grandson of the said George and Hannah (Gardner)
Creamer.