Mendocino-Statewide County CA Archives Biographies.....Maddux, Joseph May 20, 1898 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page 112
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     JOSEPH MADDUX is a native son of California, a practicing attorney at 
Fort Bragg, is a World war veteran, and member of a family that was 
established on the Pacific Coast in the forty-nine days.

     He was born in Sonoma County, May 20, 1898. His grandfather, John Parker 
Maddux, was a Tenneseeian who in the early days of the gold rush helped drive 
a band of cattle across the plains to California. After the cattle were sold 
he returned east, made arrangements to establish his permanent home in the 
West, and after arriving with his family bought a portion of the Mark West 
land grant. On this land he lived the rest of his life, was a farmer and 
rancher, and some of the property is still owned by his descendants, after an 
unbroken ownership in one name for eighty years. This pioneer Californian 
married Serena Gibson, and she and all of their eight children came to 
California.

     The father of Joseph Maddux was Jefferson Davis Maddux, who was born in 
Sonoma County and spent all his active life there as a farmer. He married Mary 
Polhemus, whose people also came to California in 1849, from the vicinity of 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

     Joseph Maddux is one of three children. He attended grade and high 
schools in Sonoma County, and in 1924 was graduated LL. B. from the law school 
of the University of California. For three years he practiced law with a San 
Francisco firm, served one year in the office of the district attorney of Yolo 
County and in October. 1927, moved to Fort Bragg. Since 1928 he has been city 
attorney and he handles the law work of the local banks.

     Mr. Maddux had his military experience before studying law. He enlisted 
in June, 1918, with the Forty-seventh Coast Artillery, and spent six months in 
France, returning home in April, 1919. He was discharged in May, 1919. He is a 
member of the American Legion, the Fort Bragg Chamber of Commerce, Business 
Men's Club, and in politics is a Democrat, following the tradition of the 
family in Tennessee and Virginia. He is a member of the Mendocino County and 
California State Bar Associations.

     Mr. Maddux married Cynthia Kirkman, who was born at Benecia, California.

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