Respectfully yours, D. P. MURPHY, JR. NEW YORK, July 13, 1908. MRS. T. H. MURRAY, Humarock Beach, Sea View, Mass. _Dear Madam_: I received the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Volume VII, 1907, and beg leave to thank you for the same. It is admirably gotten up in Mr. Murray’s usual good style and nicely illustrated, and well bound. It is like all the previous numbers, a monument to the great ability and devoted industry of your husband. His loss to the Society is indeed very great. His devotion to the work of this Society endeared him to all who knew of his earnest efforts, and his work in its behalf has made for him a most enduring monument. Very truly yours, JNO. J. LENEHAN. The following memorial to the late Major John Crane, prepared by Hon. Eugene A. Philbin, was also unanimously adopted, and it was voted to send a copy thereof to the family of Major Crane: MEMORIAL OF JOHN CRANE. “It very rarely happens that it is given to a man to be a source of inspiration to his fellowmen in more than one phase of human effort. A man may, during his life, have given evidence of exalted and self-denying patriotism, or have been conspicuous in the great field of charity, or an example of the highest type of the successful and upright business man, or a great leader in movements for the uplifting of mankind, but the average man cannot hope to establish a claim for recognition for more than one of these achievements. John Crane, however, was entitled to credit for a distinguished career in all. He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, on the 10th day of February, 1840. His mother died while he was quite young and his father took the family to the State of Wisconsin. War was declared between the North and South when he had hardly attained manhood, but, with two other young men, he organized a company of volunteers and was elected first lieutenant. This company offered its services to the governor of the State and was assigned to the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and was incorporated with other regiments which were known as the “Iron Brigade,” and as such attained great distinction for noteworthy services during the war. Mr. Crane served with the Sixth Wisconsin until the winter of 1862, when he resigned, but only for the purpose of aiding in the organization of the Seventeenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, an Irish regiment which was being raised in that State. He was successful in organizing Company A, and became its first lieutenant. This regiment in March, 1862, was ordered South, and their first stop was at St.