Andrew Glassell Jr. (September 30, 1827 – January 28, 1901) was an American real estate attorney and investor.

During the Civil War his sympathies were with the South, and he refused to take the loyalty oath to the United States required of lawyers.

He left his public office and quit the practice of law and operated a lumber mill near Santa Cruz.

Their law practice was confined chiefly to real estate transactions and they made their fortunes by being retained in the large partition suits.

[5] 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.

He divided the tract into 60 10-acre (40,000 m2) lots surrounding a 40-acre (160,000 m2) town site, which he called Richland after his father's plantation's name, and served as sales agent for the property.

[7] 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.