_Resolved_, That this memorial be entered upon the records of this Society and that a copy thereof be sent to the widow of our late fellow-member together with the assurance of the deep respect and affection in which he was held by us and the expression of our heartfelt sympathy in her sorrow and bereavement. Mr. Keating’s eulogy followed the memorial and was an eloquent tribute to our late President-General. Mr. Gargan was born at Boston, Mass., October 27, 1844, and died at Berlin, Germany, July 31, 1908. The following memorial to the late Mr. James J. Phelan was presented and read by Mr. Edward J. McGuire, and it was unanimously voted that the same be adopted and that a copy thereof be sent to the family of Mr. Phelan: MEMORIAL OF JAMES J. PHELAN. “James J. Phelan died at his country home at Allenhurst, New Jersey, on August 3, 1908, in the sixty-first year of his age. He was a native of the city of New York. “His father was of Irish birth. His mother was a native of Maryland. His father, John Phelan, came to New York in his early youth with his father. They settled in Greenwich Village, afterwards known as the “Old Ninth Ward,” early in the nineteenth century, and established a successful business in the grocery trade. John Phelan was a man of shrewdness and commercial ability, which qualities he transmitted to his son. He was one of the Phelan family that distinguished itself in the commerce of San Francisco in the pioneer days and still maintains its high reputation there. John Phelan largely increased his fortune by his relations to the trade with California in the decade between 1850 and 1860. “James J. Phelan attended first the public schools and then the commercial department of the College of St. Francis Xavier, of which famous institution he remained a steadfast friend ever afterwards. “In 1867, his father, intending him for a business career, established him as the proprietor of a general store at Fordham, which was then a village in Westchester County but which now forms one of the important centers in the borough of the Bronx, New York City. He spent the formative years of his business life in the conduct of this venture. “In 1870, at the age of twenty-five, he formed the firm of Phelan and Duval, which engaged in the wholesale wine and spirits trade and became one of the important houses in its department. He continued in active management of the affairs of this business until the year 1883, when he took charge of even larger interests.