Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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JOHN CHRISTIAN ANDREASON, JR.
 
            A progressive leader in California industry, who has helped to put 
and keep Marysville on the map, is John C. Andreason, the inventor and 
manufacturer of auto accessories in Marysville.  He was born at Indian Diggings, 
Eldorado County, on June 28, 1882, the son of John C. and Laurentine (Jensen) 
Andreason, who are mentioned on another page in this volume.  John C. Andreason, 
our subject, went to school in Eldorado County, and then, for eight years, 
worked with his father in mining.  After that, for a couple of years, he was in 
a sawmill, and then, for twelve years, he was in the lumber business.  Next, in 
Amador County he built houses by contract.  For nine months, during the war, he 
was in the Liberty Aeroplane factory in Sacramento.  Leaving that line of 
activity he took up automobile repair work at New Castle; and in the autumn of 
1918, he came to Marysville, where he worked as a foreman in an auto-repair shop 
for a couple of years.  He has been in his present shop since 1920.  On April 
18, 1922, he patented the tri-bar bumper, now in such demand throughout the 
country; and this excellent and far-superior protective device he manufactures 
for the trade.  He has also invented and patented the three-point suspension 
spring, known as the �no shock spring,� now being made in Los Angeles; and he 
has patented the Capital Spark Plug, upon which he has two United States patents 
and four foreign patents.  The bumpers are also manufactured by the Willie 
Ritchie Company of San Francisco, and by the Oakland Machinery Company, of 
Oakland.  At the present time is building a 40 by 130 foot reinforced concrete 
building to accommodate the manufacture of his inventions, particularly his 
bumpers and non-glaring head-lights.  This building will also contain his 
machine shop, storeroom and workshop, where general auto-repair work will be 
done.  The ground upon which this building is being erected contains about one 
acre and is located at Rupert Station, in the Magnolia Park district, one and 
one-half miles south of Marysville.  Here he is also building his residence and 
a four-drive gas and oil service station and will handle the products of the 
Union, Associated, Shell and Standard companies.
            At Marysville in 1921, Mr. Andreason was married to Mrs. Sadie 
Goodman, nee Sadie Duus, of Marysville, a native daughter, having been born at 
Live Oak.  She is the third in order of birth of the four children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Hans Christian Duus, who have been very successful farmers at Gridley, 
where they now live retired.  By her marriage with Mr. Goodman one son was born, 
named Roy Alfred Goodman, while by her present union she has a daughter, named 
Alice T. Andreason.  Mr. Andreason is a Republican.  He is fond of hunting and 
fishing, and is deeply interested in the historic past and the promising future 
of the locality in which he lives and prospers.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1192-1193