Born in County Kerry, Ireland, 1846; was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood at Alleghany, N. Y., 1870; appointed rector of St. Anne’s church, Worcester, Mass., 1872, having previously had charge of the parish in Blackstone, Mass.; served two terms of three years each on the school board of Worcester; admitted to the Society, November 3, 1898; died in Worcester, Mass., August 20, 1899. Mr. Edmund Phelan. Born in Ireland 31 years ago; at the time of his death he was president of Newspaper Mailers’ Union, No. 1, Boston, Mass. He was known throughout the state as a temperance worker in Catholic circles, and also took much interest in the work of our Historical Society. He died at his home, 32 Adams street, Roxbury (Boston), Mass., November 29, 1899. GENERAL INDEX. Addresses and Papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society, 53. Annual Banquet of the organization, 46. Annual Business Proceedings, 41. Annual Report of the Secretary-General, 42. Annual Report of the Treasurer-General, 45. Chronological Record of the Society, 12. Hon. John D. Crimmins’s Reception to the Society, 52. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt’s Reception, 51. List of Gentlemen who have spoken before the Society, or at meetings under its auspices, 203. List of Papers read, or contributed for publication, since the Society was organized, 202. Letter from the Retiring President-General, 53. Meeting at Newport, R. I., 114. Meeting at Providence, R. I., 104. Membership Roll, 206. Necrology of the Society, 235. Officers of the Society for 1899, 9, 10, 11. Papers contributed during the year for publication, 120. President-General Gargan’s Address, 93. Prospectus of the Society, 5. Reception and Banquet at Boston Mass., 117. ANALYTICAL INDEX. Abraham Lincoln, 98. A Chronological Record of the Society, 12. Adams, John, testimony relative to Gen. John Sullivan, 77. Addresses and Papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society, 53. A Founder of Lowell, Mass., 167. African Origin, Americans of, 56. Alabama, Hon. Emmet O’Neal of, 14. Alabama, Pickett’s History of, 137. Alabama, The Confederate Ship, 82, 83. Alamo, Siege of the, 131. Alarm, The Lexington, 107. Alden, John, of Mayflower fame, 238. Alexander II, of Russia, 99. Alexander, Sarah, of Newry, Ireland, 188. Alley, John R., of Boston, Mass., 27, 236. All Hallows College, 220. Alien and Sedition Laws, 142. Alliance with the Hurons, 71. Altoona, Pa., Conference of Loyal Governors at, 98. America, Irish Immigration to, 62. “America Was Lost by Irish Emigrants,” 67. American Antiquarian Society, 14. American Army before Boston, 68. American Authors’ Society, 104. American Continental Army, 82. American Colonies, 44, 60, 61, 71, 74, 77. American Colonies, Irish Schoolmaster in, 44. American Colonies, Irish Settlers in, 60, 61.