Prominent Los Angeles Lawyer, first President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, namesake of Glassell Park area of Los Angeles and Great-Uncle of General George S. Patton, Jr.
THE LOS ANGELES RECORD; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; Tuesday, January 29, 1901; Page One:
"ANDREW GLASSELL DEAD
Pioneer Attorney, Capitalist and Well
Known Citizen of Los Angeles
Passes Away.
Andrew Glassell, the pioneer attorney, is dead. He died yesterday at his late residence, 352 Buena Vista street, where he had long lived. He had made his home in Los Angeles since 1896.
A native of Virginia, where he was born September 30, 1827, he removed in his youth to Alabama with his father's family, where he studied law, after graduating from the University of Alabama. In 1851, he came to California, and was appointed deputy United States attorney general for this state.
In 1857 he married the daughter of Dr. H. H. Toland of San Francisco. To this union were born seven [sic-nine] children--Mrs. H. M. Mitchell, Mrs. Harrington Brown, [Mrs. John Shorb,] Hugh, Andrew, William T., Philip and Alfred Glassell, all of whom are still living in this city[; the youngest child, son Lucien T. Glassell, died in 1899]. There was no fruit of his late marriage to Mrs. Virginia M. Ring of New Orleans, who died four [sic-five] years ago.
In the practice of law in this city, Mr. Glassell was associated with A. B. Chapman and Colonel George H. Smith under the firm name of Glassell, Chapman & Smith. He was a stockholder and a director in the Farmers' and Merchants' bank and Southern California counsel for the Southern Pacific Railway company and other large corporations. He was also one of the original incorporators of the Los Angeles Water company.
Possessed of southern sympathies, Mr. Glassell relinquished his office of attorney-general during the civil war in consequence of his unwillingness to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. His brother William left the United States navy and accepted a commission in the Confederate navy, where he won prominence on account of blowing up the frigate New Ironsides, off Charleston harbor. Glassell accumulated a handstome fortune during his life time.
The local Bar association this morning held a brief session in Judge Shaw's department of the superior court, for the purpose of taking appropriate action with respect to death of Mr. Glassell. S. M. White, A. M. Stephens, A. M. Hutton, J. A. Graves and J. R. Scott were appointed a committee to formulate a memorial to be presented to the bar next Saturday at 10 a.m., at which hour in all the departments motions will be presented that court be adjourned February 4, in recognition of the hundredth anniversary of the induction into office of the late Chief Justice Marshall. It is proposed to hold a public meeting in Blanchard hall in commemoration of that event, and the bar will hold a banquet in the evening."
THE LOS ANGELES RECORD; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; Tuesday, January 29, 1901; Page One:
"ANDREW GLASSELL DEAD
Pioneer Attorney, Capitalist and Well
Known Citizen of Los Angeles
Passes Away.
Andrew Glassell, the pioneer attorney, is dead. He died yesterday at his late residence, 352 Buena Vista street, where he had long lived. He had made his home in Los Angeles since 1896.
A native of Virginia, where he was born September 30, 1827, he removed in his youth to Alabama with his father's family, where he studied law, after graduating from the University of Alabama. In 1851, he came to California, and was appointed deputy United States attorney general for this state.
In 1857 he married the daughter of Dr. H. H. Toland of San Francisco. To this union were born seven [sic-nine] children--Mrs. H. M. Mitchell, Mrs. Harrington Brown, [Mrs. John Shorb,] Hugh, Andrew, William T., Philip and Alfred Glassell, all of whom are still living in this city[; the youngest child, son Lucien T. Glassell, died in 1899]. There was no fruit of his late marriage to Mrs. Virginia M. Ring of New Orleans, who died four [sic-five] years ago.
In the practice of law in this city, Mr. Glassell was associated with A. B. Chapman and Colonel George H. Smith under the firm name of Glassell, Chapman & Smith. He was a stockholder and a director in the Farmers' and Merchants' bank and Southern California counsel for the Southern Pacific Railway company and other large corporations. He was also one of the original incorporators of the Los Angeles Water company.
Possessed of southern sympathies, Mr. Glassell relinquished his office of attorney-general during the civil war in consequence of his unwillingness to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. His brother William left the United States navy and accepted a commission in the Confederate navy, where he won prominence on account of blowing up the frigate New Ironsides, off Charleston harbor. Glassell accumulated a handstome fortune during his life time.
The local Bar association this morning held a brief session in Judge Shaw's department of the superior court, for the purpose of taking appropriate action with respect to death of Mr. Glassell. S. M. White, A. M. Stephens, A. M. Hutton, J. A. Graves and J. R. Scott were appointed a committee to formulate a memorial to be presented to the bar next Saturday at 10 a.m., at which hour in all the departments motions will be presented that court be adjourned February 4, in recognition of the hundredth anniversary of the induction into office of the late Chief Justice Marshall. It is proposed to hold a public meeting in Blanchard hall in commemoration of that event, and the bar will hold a banquet in the evening."
Prominent Los Angeles Lawyer, first President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, namesake of Glassell Park area of Los Angeles and Great-Uncle of General George S. Patton, Jr.
THE LOS ANGELES RECORD; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; Tuesday, January 29, 1901; Page One:
"ANDREW GLASSELL DEAD
Pioneer Attorney, Capitalist and Well
Known Citizen of Los Angeles
Passes Away.
Andrew Glassell, the pioneer attorney, is dead. He died yesterday at his late residence, 352 Buena Vista street, where he had long lived. He had made his home in Los Angeles since 1896.
A native of Virginia, where he was born September 30, 1827, he removed in his youth to Alabama with his father's family, where he studied law, after graduating from the University of Alabama. In 1851, he came to California, and was appointed deputy United States attorney general for this state.
In 1857 he married the daughter of Dr. H. H. Toland of San Francisco. To this union were born seven [sic-nine] children--Mrs. H. M. Mitchell, Mrs. Harrington Brown, [Mrs. John Shorb,] Hugh, Andrew, William T., Philip and Alfred Glassell, all of whom are still living in this city[; the youngest child, son Lucien T. Glassell, died in 1899]. There was no fruit of his late marriage to Mrs. Virginia M. Ring of New Orleans, who died four [sic-five] years ago.
In the practice of law in this city, Mr. Glassell was associated with A. B. Chapman and Colonel George H. Smith under the firm name of Glassell, Chapman & Smith. He was a stockholder and a director in the Farmers' and Merchants' bank and Southern California counsel for the Southern Pacific Railway company and other large corporations. He was also one of the original incorporators of the Los Angeles Water company.
Possessed of southern sympathies, Mr. Glassell relinquished his office of attorney-general during the civil war in consequence of his unwillingness to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. His brother William left the United States navy and accepted a commission in the Confederate navy, where he won prominence on account of blowing up the frigate New Ironsides, off Charleston harbor. Glassell accumulated a handstome fortune during his life time.
The local Bar association this morning held a brief session in Judge Shaw's department of the superior court, for the purpose of taking appropriate action with respect to death of Mr. Glassell. S. M. White, A. M. Stephens, A. M. Hutton, J. A. Graves and J. R. Scott were appointed a committee to formulate a memorial to be presented to the bar next Saturday at 10 a.m., at which hour in all the departments motions will be presented that court be adjourned February 4, in recognition of the hundredth anniversary of the induction into office of the late Chief Justice Marshall. It is proposed to hold a public meeting in Blanchard hall in commemoration of that event, and the bar will hold a banquet in the evening."
THE LOS ANGELES RECORD; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; Tuesday, January 29, 1901; Page One:
"ANDREW GLASSELL DEAD
Pioneer Attorney, Capitalist and Well
Known Citizen of Los Angeles
Passes Away.
Andrew Glassell, the pioneer attorney, is dead. He died yesterday at his late residence, 352 Buena Vista street, where he had long lived. He had made his home in Los Angeles since 1896.
A native of Virginia, where he was born September 30, 1827, he removed in his youth to Alabama with his father's family, where he studied law, after graduating from the University of Alabama. In 1851, he came to California, and was appointed deputy United States attorney general for this state.
In 1857 he married the daughter of Dr. H. H. Toland of San Francisco. To this union were born seven [sic-nine] children--Mrs. H. M. Mitchell, Mrs. Harrington Brown, [Mrs. John Shorb,] Hugh, Andrew, William T., Philip and Alfred Glassell, all of whom are still living in this city[; the youngest child, son Lucien T. Glassell, died in 1899]. There was no fruit of his late marriage to Mrs. Virginia M. Ring of New Orleans, who died four [sic-five] years ago.
In the practice of law in this city, Mr. Glassell was associated with A. B. Chapman and Colonel George H. Smith under the firm name of Glassell, Chapman & Smith. He was a stockholder and a director in the Farmers' and Merchants' bank and Southern California counsel for the Southern Pacific Railway company and other large corporations. He was also one of the original incorporators of the Los Angeles Water company.
Possessed of southern sympathies, Mr. Glassell relinquished his office of attorney-general during the civil war in consequence of his unwillingness to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. His brother William left the United States navy and accepted a commission in the Confederate navy, where he won prominence on account of blowing up the frigate New Ironsides, off Charleston harbor. Glassell accumulated a handstome fortune during his life time.
The local Bar association this morning held a brief session in Judge Shaw's department of the superior court, for the purpose of taking appropriate action with respect to death of Mr. Glassell. S. M. White, A. M. Stephens, A. M. Hutton, J. A. Graves and J. R. Scott were appointed a committee to formulate a memorial to be presented to the bar next Saturday at 10 a.m., at which hour in all the departments motions will be presented that court be adjourned February 4, in recognition of the hundredth anniversary of the induction into office of the late Chief Justice Marshall. It is proposed to hold a public meeting in Blanchard hall in commemoration of that event, and the bar will hold a banquet in the evening."
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