Kings County
Biographies
MAUD JUDKINS CLEVELAND
Among the progressive, enterprising and successful business firms of Corcoran, none is held in higher esteem in the community than the insurance and real estate agency conducted by Maud Judkins Cleveland. She was born Newton, Kansas, the daughter of Richard J. and Jueritta (Bennett) Judkins, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Indiana. Her father was a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted early in that struggle as a member of the Company I of the Twenty-seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served from August, 1861, until the close of the war, taking part in many of the most important campaigns and battles during that period. In the early ‘80s he went to Kansas and homesteaded a farm, on which he lived until 1890, when he went to Newton, where Mr. Judkins served as sheriff for eight years. His next move was to Topeka, where they resided until the family came to California in 1908, those who came included the father and mother and their children- Ida May; Charles C., of San Bernardino; Nellie (Mrs. Ward), of San Bernardino; and Maud, the subject of this sketch.
Maud Judkins received a good public school education and became an expert accountant. For some time she was employed as a bookkeeper by different firms and individuals in Corcoran, but since 1922 has carried on a special line of business on her own account, conducting an insurance agency and acting as real estate broker. She sells fire, automobile and casualty insurance and has handled a good many sales of real estate in this vicinity, always to the entire satisfaction of all parties interested. She is also keeping books for Forrest Riley and F. A. Cleveland. She is a member of the Kings County Insurance Association and the Corcoran Chamber of Commerce. A lady of charming grace of manner, and attractive personality, sound judgment and keen discrimination, she has won and retains to a marked degree the esteem and confidence of the community and is a popular member of the social circles in which she moves.
Miss Judkins was married on June 22, 1925, to F. A. Cleveland, a rancher of Corcoran, who has been here about seventeen years, but is a native of Nebraska.
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California – Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 522
Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama
WALTON B. COBB, D.D.S.
If true to his profession and earnest in his efforts to enlarge his sphere of usefulness, the man who spends his life in an effort to alleviate human suffering and distress in any way is indeed a benefactor of his kind, for to such men as Dr. Walton B. Cobb, well known dentist of Lemoore, are entrusted the comfort and safety and in some cases the lives of those who place themselves under his care. Walton B. Cobb was born in Fowler, Fresno county, California, on the 28th day of November, 1887. He attended the grade schools and then entered the high school in Sanger, California, from which he was graduated. Having determined to devote his life to the dental profession, he took the two-year course in the University of California at Berkeley, followed by the full course in dentistry in the University of Southern California, from which he was graduated in 1915, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He immediately came to Lemoore and entered into practice, in which he has been successful to a very gratifying degree. Careful, painstaking and conscientious in everything he does, he has won the confidence and good will of the people of the community and is in the enjoyment of a large and representative patronage. Dr. Cobb has been wisely economical and has invested his money in real estate, being now the owner of three ranches. One, known as the Island ranch, is devoted to alfalfa while the other two, the Del Rey ranch and the ranch in Fowler, are devoted to vineyards and fruit.
Dr. Cobb was married to Miss Ovilla McHaley, and they are the parents of three children: Carol, James and George. Dr. Cobb is a member of the San Joaquin Valley Dental Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, in the local lodge of which he has held office; the Foresters of America; the Woodmen of the World; and the Modern Woodmen of America.
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California – Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 529
Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama