Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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ANDREW MATTEI, JR. � In the earlier years of Los Angeles, the 
metropolis of Southern California, while the city was yet in the throes of 
the real estate excitement of the eighties, one of Fresno County's rising 
young business men, Andrew Mattei, Jr., was born in that city, September 
26, 1887. 

Mr. Mattei was educated at the Horace Mann School in the Malaga 
district of Fresno County, and supplemented his early education with a course 
at Santa Clara College, at Santa Clara, and St. Mary's College, at Oakland, 
graduating from the latter institution in 1908. Civil engineering and a com- 
mercial course were included in his curriculum, and he afterwards engaged in 
viticulture and the wine-making industry with his father, with whom he has 
been associated ever since, his special line of development work being the clari- 
fying of wine and placing it on the eastern market, selling direct to dealers 
instead of through local agencies, as in former years. 

Energetic and versatile, Mr. Mattei exhibits an unusual capacity for 
business achievement. He has made a success of his work in whatever line 
he has been engaged. He is general manager of the Union Sales Company 
and also general manager of the General Tire and Rubber Company of Cali- 
fornia, with headquarters in Fresno and branch offices throughout the state. 
He has a chain of ten oil-filling stations located in San Francisco, Fresno, 
Merced. Tulare, Visalia and Porterville. He is also president of the Center 
Mercantile Company, located at 1151 J Street, Fresno. 

Mr. Mattei's marriage united him with Miss Julia Eddy, one of Califor- 
nia's native daughters, and they are the parents of two children, Andrew. Jr. 
and Elleanor. In his fraternal associations he is a member of the Fresno 
Lodge of Elks, and of the Fresno Parlor of Native Sons of the Golden West. 
In 1917 he was vice-president of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce. Mr. 
Mattei makes his home on the ranch at Malaga and ably assists his father 
in caring for the various interests connected with their business.