Oakland Native Who Was Oldest Man In The United States Dies

Mr. Matthews, who died at his home in Indian Wells (Riverside County), was remembered by his son as a generous man who helped support his large family through the Great Depression and whose love of golf kept him going for decades longer than anyone expected. Mr. Matthews was born in Oakland to two Portuguese immigrants who first came to the United States to work in the sugar industry in Hawaii before securing passage to the Bay Area. When the family moved to Oakland, it was a city unrecognizable from today’s metropolis in many ways, with horses and wagons roving the streets, few cars or paved roads, and telephones still a relative rarity, Steve Matthews said. Mr.