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Patrick William Riordan (August 27, 1841 – December 27, 1914) was a Canadian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1884 until his death in 1914. He served during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and he was a prominent figure in the first case submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Patrick William Riordan (1841–1914), American Roman Catholic priest; second Archbishop of San Francisco Pat Riordan (born 1979), Canadian rugby union player Topics referred to by the same term
In 1903, the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, a religious order based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, sent a contingent of nuns to Menlo Park to take care of the domestic services, such as cooking, laundry and cleaning, at St. Patrick's. St. Patrick's was severely damaged in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. However, it remained open and the damage ...
Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy (28 May 1864 – 12 October 1934) was an Irish civil engineer who became city engineer for the city of San Francisco during the early twentieth century and developed both the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) and the Hetch Hetchy water system.
In 1985, he founded a company of dancers, known as Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu in San Francisco. [1] [2] The company's style blends traditional movements with non-Hawaiian music like opera, electronic, dance, alternative, and pop. The company's visually captivating stage productions showcase both hula mua and authentic, traditional pieces.
Different Fur Studios (formerly Different Fur Trading Company) is a recording studio located in the Mission District area of San Francisco, California, at 3470 19th Street.. Since 1968, Different Fur has recorded music from a wide range of artists, including major Grammy and Oscar-winning musicians as well as many important independent musicia
Michael O'Shaughnessy, designed the San Francisco streetcar system (1927), the O'Shaughnessy Dam (1923) and the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct (1923). William Brooke O'Shaughnessy , early anaesthetist who introduced the therapeutic use of cannabis to Western medicine (1838), pioneered intravenous fluid therapy to treat cholera (1831) and established a ...
Patrick Michael O'Donnell (born February 22, 1991) is an American professional football punter for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Cincinnati Bearcats and Miami Hurricanes before being selected by the Chicago Bears in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL draft.