Charles "Carlos" Beaubien (1800-1864) was a French Canadian who moved to Taos in 1823, opening a dry goods and trapper supply store. He later married Maria Pabla Lobato (1811-1864), the daughter of a prominent local family, and became a Mexican citizen in 1827. By 1840 he had become an influential Taos merchant with many large landholdings. Lucien Maxwell was a fur trapper from Illinois who had traveled to Taos, the fur trading capital of the Southwest, during the winter of 1841-1842. There he met Beaubien and the two quickly became friends. He soon married Beaubien's eldest daughter, Luz (1829-1900) and they married in 1844. Together the Maxwell's had nine children, among them a daughter Verenisa (1860-1864) who is buried in the old plaza along with her grandmother, Pabla Beaubien.
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