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    Trinidad's first "white" child born in Baca House

    I was reading my great-great-grandmother's memoirs, "An Army Wife on the Frontier," (by Alice Blackwood Baldwin) and came to a paragraph which reads, "On the twelfth of October, 1867, under the shadows of Fisher's Peak, a baby was born to us. I was skillfully and tenderly cared for by a Mrs. John D. Kinnear, at that time the only American in town. This baby was the first white child of unmixed blood born in Trinidad".
    My great-grandmother, Juanita Baldwin was born in the Baca home. Felipe Baca and his wife were sheep ranchers, and Louise Kinnear was the common-law wife of John Kinnear, Trinidad's dance hall operator and sometime deputy marshal.
    I am researching history on my great-great-grandfather, Brig. General
    Frank D. Baldwin, who with his wife Alice, were on there way to Fort Wingate (New Mexico) when Alice went into labor in Trinidad. Frank D. Baldwin was awarded two medal's of honor as an army officer, and was widely known in the frontier days of the west.
    Anyway, I'm looking for anybody with background of early Trinidad history, including the Baca family. I plan to visit the Baca House museum with my family this summer.
    Last edited by Dodie; 02-27-2010 at 10:00 PM.

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