Kings County Biographies


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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