Background
Cahill, Bernard J. S. was born on January 30, 1866 in London, England. Son of James Alban and Elizabeth (Smith) Cahill.
Cahill, Bernard J. S. was born on January 30, 1866 in London, England. Son of James Alban and Elizabeth (Smith) Cahill.
Educated Ratcliffe College (University of London), 1884. South. Kensington School of Art, London, 1887. Came to the United States, 1888.
1 son, Bernard James Alban. Practicing architecture at San Francisco, 1891, Vancouver, British Columbia, Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. Specialist in mausoleum design and mortuary architecture.
Editor, American Builders Review, 1906.
Inventor of the “Butterfly Map” or Octahedral System of Projection, 1899-1935, suited for international meteorology, geography and geophysics, including aviation and radio, adopted by Pacific division of Pan-American Airways 1939, by Alameda School Board, 1940. Featured by New York Times and Associated Press as the standard world map of the future).
Author pamphlet, On Thinking Federally and other pamphlets on architecture, cartography, et cetera Original plans for The Civic Center made in 1904, finally adopted by the City of San Francisco, January 1912.
Planned Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Oregon.
Magnavox factories, Oakland. Diamond Head Memorial Park, Honolulu. Catacombs and Columbarium Cypress Lawn, San Francisco.
Saint Mary's Mausoleum, Sacramento.
Etc. Home: 1834 Clinton Avenue, Alameda, California.
Married Lida Boardman Hall, March 5, 1897 (now deceased). Married second, Laura Georgiana McCune, June 26, 1907.