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.