WILLIAM CASEY MAHONEY
William Casey Mahoney is a San Francisco
architect whose work has brought him high standing in his profession on the
Pacific Coast. He is a native son and represents one of the pioneer families of
the state.
Mr. Mahoney was born at San Francisco,
February 2, 1869. His father, Denis Mahoney was born in Ireland in 1816,
married Margaret Casey at Albany, New York, and they arrived in San Francisco
with three children, he was the first of the pioneers to engage largely in the
cattle business, and established the first slaughter house in San Francisco,
which was situated on what is now the corner of Van Ness Avenue and Jackson
Street. Eight other children were born in California, and several of them have
made exceptional records in the professions and in business affairs.
William Casey Mahoney was educated in
grammar schools in San Francisco, in the Sacred Heart Academy, and in 1889 took
up the study of architecture with Mr. Hendrickson. In 1891 Mr. Hendrickson took
him into partnership, and from 1896 until 1906 he was in partnership with C.T.
Ryland. Later W. J. Cuthbertson became his partner, under the firm name of
Cuthbertson and Mahoney, and since 1915 Mr. Mahoney has practiced alone, with
offices at 159 Sutter Street. Mr. Mahoney served as city architect, and has
designed and supervised the construction of many notable buildings in San
Francisco and vicinity.
He married Mary T. Bergin. Her father, James
J. Bergin, with her grandfather, started the first toilet soap factory in San
Francisco, on Powell and Green streets. Mrs. Mahoney is a niece of Thomas I.
Bergin, member of the prominent law firm McAllister and Bergin at San
Francisco. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney, three sons and three
daughters. The oldest, Andrew William, born April 19,1897, is now
superintendent of the local sales agency of the Studebaker Company, and in 1921
married Jeanette Kearney, a granddaughter of the famous Denis Kearney, a
daughter of William Kearney and niece of Mildred Kearney, the famous singer.
The second child of Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney is James Bergin, born in July, 1898,
now connected with the Mohawk Tire Company. Mary Bergin, the third in age, was
born August 2, 1899; Mira, born December 15, 1900, is the wife of Robert Sharp
Mitchell, of San Francisco, whose father was chief of the secret service during
the McKinley administration; Denis Mahoney, born November 2, 1903, a student in
the University of California; and Kathleen, born July2, 1905, attending Lowell
High School.
Louise E. Shoemaker, Transcriber February 18th 2004
Source: "The San
Francisco Bay Region" by Bailey Millard Vol. 3 page 73-74. Published by The
American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.
© 2004 Louise Shoemaker