Family Life
Andrew Glassell's widowed sister Susan Thornton Glassell 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 and is interred at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in central Los Angeles.
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