transfer was made he became chief counsel of the S.P. railroad company in Southern California, and remained in that capacity until he retired in 1883. Orange, California Glassell, Chapman & Smith looked after the interests of the Yorba family of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, and when after a drought, the final settlement was reached there was not enough cash to satisfy attorney fees. Reluctantly a few thousand acres of land were taken in payment, and Chapman and Glassell came into possession of the land on which the City of Orange, California was built. In 1872, the Richland Farm Tract (later Orange) subdivision was placed on the market by Andrew Glassell. Glassell and Chapman employed the former's younger brother, Captain William T. Glassell to plot the town site. Captain Glassell surveyed a section of land for his brother and Chapman in 1871. He divided the tract into 60 lots surrounding a town site, which he called Richland after his father's plantation's name, and served as sales agent for the property. In 1873, when a post office was sought for the village it was discovered that there was a town in Sacramento County by the name of Richland. As an alternative, Orange was chosen in honor of Andrew Glassell's home county. Personal life Andrew Glassell's widowed sister Susan Thornton Glassell, the paternal grandmother of General George Patton, came to live with him in Los Angeles. In 1857, Andrew Glassell married Lucy Toland (1838 - 1879), daughter of H. H. Toland, a pioneer physician of San Francisco. Several children were born to this union. After her death, he married Mrs. Virginia Micou Ring (1836–1895) of New Orleans in 1885. Glassell died at his home in Los Angeles at age 73, and is interred at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in central Los Angeles. Legacy The Glassell Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, and Glassell Street in Orange County, California are named for him. References External links 1827 births 1901 deaths Land owners from California Lawyers from Los Angeles Glassell Park, Los Angeles Orange, California People from Orange County, Virginia University of Alabama alumni 19th century in Los Angeles Burials at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery 19th-century American businesspeople