San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Rahill, John Joseph 1865 - March 10, 1930
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page  121
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     JOHN JOSEPH RAHILL was a resident of the San Francisco Bay district for 
over forty years, and in the City of Berkeley in particular was known as a 
very able business man, a student and traveler who was extraordinarily well 
informed on many subjects and an ardent civic worker. He was regarded as one 
of the most valuable members of the City Council when he died March 10, 1930.

     Mr. Rahill was born in Ireland, in 1865, son of Patrick and Margaret 
(Brady) Rahill. He came to this country when eighteen years of age, living in 
Philadelphia for a time, and two years later came to California. At Fresno he 
was for a time editorial writer for the Fresno Republican and later was 
associated with one of the banks of that city. On moving to Berkeley, Mr. 
Rahill became connected with the Cutter Laboratories, of which he was 
secretary and general manager at the time of his death. He was widely known as 
an expert on corporation accounting, was a certified public accountant, and 
one of the direct products of his long experience in this business was the 
authorship of a text book on Corporation Accounting and Corporation Law, which 
was used for some years in Yale and other universities.

     Prompted primarily by business reasons, he traveled extensively 
throughout the world, and his travels brought him a personal knowledge of 
Australia, South America and the older civilizations of Europe and Asia. 
Throughout his residence at Berkeley he gave generously of his time and 
efforts in behalf of civic betterment movements. He was a leader in civic 
projects, in the official life of the city and in industrial circles. He was a 
past president of the Manufacturers Association, had served as chairman of the 
industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce and was a member of the Rotary 
and City Commons Clubs and Berkeley Lodge No. 1002, B. P. O. Elks.  Mr. Rahill 
on April 3, 1928, was appointed to the City Council to a vacancy and in May, 
1929, was elected for a four year term. One city official expressed the 
opinion that Mr. Rahill was "undoubtedly one the most conscientious and able 
members who ever served on the City Council."

     He married Catherine G. Culkin, of New York State. Five children were 
born to them, their only son, Robert Anselm, being deceased. Of the four 
daughters Genevieve Margaret is known as Sister Mary Raymund of the 
Presentation Convent of Los Angeles. Marion Edith is the wife of W. D. 
Trewartha, an insurance man at Berkeley, and they have two children, Cathryne 
Jeanne and William Rahill Trewartha. The other two daughters are Miss 
Florienne Eleanor and Miss Imelda Madelon.

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