San Francisco County
Biographies
MATTHEW A. McCULLOUGH
As a specialist in constitutional law affecting the rights of the individual, and in laws regulating private business or private occupations, Matthew A. McCullough is one of the more prominent of the lawyers now practicing in the city of San Francisco. He was born in County Louth, Ireland, and is a son of Christopher Harmon and Mary McCullough.
Mr. McCullough has been a resident of the state of California since the year 1890. He attended the public schools of San Mateo county, and received his legal training in the San Francisco Law School. He was admitted to the California state bar in 1922, and is entitled to practice in all of the courts of this state, including the United States circuit court of appeals. He has practiced in San Francisco since the year of his admission, and has achieved a reputation of merit in the local bar, having been associated with a number of important cases. He obtained the supreme court decision extending protection of the workmen’s compensation act to employes under age and their dependents. He is a member of the California State and the San Francisco Bar Associations.
He was a member for many years of the League of the Cross Cadets of San Francisco, a semi-military and athletic organization for boys and young men. During the World war period, he was assigned to the infantry officers’ training camp at Camp Fremont, California.
Mr. McCullough is a communicant of the Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Commonwealth Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Byington, Lewis Francis, “History of
San Francisco 3 Vols”, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1931. Vol. 2 Pages 209-210.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
GOLDEN NUGGET'S SAN
FRANCISCO BIOGRAPIES