 AIHS was relocated to New York City in 1904 by T. H. Murray, then serving as society's Secretary-General.Perhaps the most notable member of AIHS at the time was President Theodore Roosevelt.The society's formal purpose is "to place permanently on record the story of the Irish in America from the earliest settlement to the present day, justly, impartially, fully, and sympathetically correcting neglect and misrepresentation by certain historians of the part taken in the founding, upbuilding and safeguarding of the Nation by persons of Irish birth and descent."