a San Antonio township dairyman a few days later. Barnaby left the area, but 

 Winslow stayed on, operating his small dairy farm. In 1870 Winslow had 

 sixteen milk cows and continued to produce farm crops. Benjamin Winslow died 

 at Olema in 1875 and, many years later in 1882, his widow Margaret sold his 

 farmland to Joseph and James Bloom. 127 



The central section of the ranch consisted of two old parcels, the first 

 being the 400 acres Stephen Barnaby sold to Samuel Nay in 1860 and the 

 second being 157 acres that Victor Post sold to Zadock Karner on February 1, 

 1856. Karner came to California in 1851 on the first voyage of the steamer 

 Golden Gate from the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco. Karner had 

 worked in his native Massachusetts as a farmer, grocer and jeweler, and while 

 at the California mines operated a hotel at Mountain Springs for six years and 

 also worked as a watchmaker. Two years after purchasing his Olema Valley 

 ranch he came to settle there and start a dairy, bringing with him his nephew, 

 L. K. Baldwin. 128 



Levi K. Baldwin's hometown in Massachusetts was the same as his uncle 

 Zadock Karner 's: Egremont in Berkshire County. Baldwin married Emeline 

 Parsons and operated a successful farm on the East Coast for many years. Due 

 to an investment gone bad, Baldwin lost his fortune and came to Olema in 1858 

 to work on his uncle's dairy. Baldwin and his wife and young daughter occupied 

 a house on the site of the Truttman Ranch today, possibly the "bunk house" 

 that still stands, and helped his uncle to develop a fine dairy ranch. 129 



By 1860 the thriving Karner and Baldwin dairy, known as L. K. Baldwin 

 & Co., supported 70 milk cows which produced 5,000 pounds of butter. Four 

 hired hands did the milking and farm work, raising 1,620 bushels of wheat, 

 oats, barley and potatoes and sixteen tons of hay. One of the farm hands was 

 Emeline Baldwin's brother Charles Parsons, who five years later would develop 

 another early dairy ranch (now Lupton) to the south. 



In early 1862 a correspondent from The California Farmer visited the 

 Olema Valley ranches and, in glowing terms, singled out Baldwin's dairy as the 

 best and most successful in the area. In the opinion of the writer, "[Karner 



'"Deeds Book C, p. 344, Book D, pp. 243 and 245, Book X, p. 475, MCRO; Population and 

 Agriculture Schedules of the 9th U. S. Census, 1870; Mason, Historian, p. 767. 



128 Deeds Book C, pp. 49 and 234, MCRO; Santa Cruz County, pp. 309-310. 

 129 Santa Cruz County, pp. 332-333; Plat of Rancho Tomales y Baulines, 1858, PRNS. 



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