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 Frederick Langholtz
-Frederick Langholtz and Nels Neilson operated a freighting and wood supply business at 106 Strickland Street in Whitehorse from 1912 to the early 1920s. A log structure on the property was used as a stable and blacksmith shop.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens)) Fred Langholtz married Bernadine Piper Richards’ mother. At that time Langholtz had a dray business in the store later taken over by Mr. Sewell.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), July 1965. Yukon Archives microfilm, Volume 56, Number 28.))
+Frederick Langholtz and Nels Neilson operated a freighting and wood supply business at 106 Strickland Street in Whitehorse from 1912 to the early 1920s. A log structure on the property was used as a stable and blacksmith shop.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens)) Fred Langholtz married [Edna (Bigger) Piper] when Langholtz had a dray business in the store later taken over by Mr. Sewell.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), July 1965. Yukon Archives microfilm, Volume 56, Number 28.))
-In 1923, the stable was disassembled and taken across the river to Langholtz’ property on Wickstrom Road where it was reassembled as a house.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens)) The Langholtz Fox farm was located a short distance upstream from the J.P. Whitney Black Silver Fox Farm Company property on the east side of the Yukon River. Langholtz’ original buildings and fox pens remained in 1996 as the last vestiges of Whitehorse's fox farming past.((Antonio Zedda, Yukon Historical & Museums Association newsletter, 1996.)) Fred Langholtz had a cow on the property for some years before 1929. Because the property was on the other side of the river, the cow was not considered to be living in Whitehorse. It was ignored whole news of the arrival of the first cow to live inside the Whitehorse town limits made it into the local paper.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 March 1929.))
+Edna Bigger was the daughter of H.J. Bigger who was one of Whitehorse's first merchants. Edna had three daughters from a previous marriage to John Piper who died of tuberculosis in 1902. Edna's daughters were Bernadine Piper (married T.C. Richards 1918), Nellie Piper (married John Rosenberg 1912) and Mamie Piper (married A.R. McDougall 1917).((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information may be from the Yukon Archives, Moccasin Telegraph, Fifty-Eighth Edition, April 18, 2004 created by Sherron Jones.)) When Bernadine married T.C. Richards he had been the manager of the Whitehorse branch of P. Burns Co. for three years. They were married by the Anglican minister Rev. A.C. Field of Carcross and lived in a house on Elliot Street between Second and Third recently vacated by R. H. and Mrs. Palmer. Nellie May Piper, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Langholtz, married John W. A. Rosenburg at the home of the officiating clergyman Rev. Father Rivet of Whitehorse. Their home was the Alguire house in the northern part of Whitehorse. Mamie Piper married A.R. McDougall and Rev. Father Chas Wolf performed the ceremony. The couple lived at Little Windy Arm in the Conrad district where Mr. McDougall was mining.((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information from articles in the //Whitehorse Star.//))
+In 1923, the stable from the dray business was disassembled and taken across the river to Langholtz’ property on Wickstrom Road where it was reassembled as a house.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens)) The Langholtz Fox farm was located a short distance upstream from the J.P. Whitney Black Silver Fox Farm Company property on the east side of the Yukon River. Langholtz’ original buildings and fox pens remained in 1996 as the last vestiges of Whitehorse's fox farming past.((Antonio Zedda, Yukon Historical & Museums Association newsletter, 1996.)) Fred Langholtz had a cow on the property for some years before 1929. Because the property was on the other side of the river, the cow was not considered to be living in Whitehorse. It was ignored while news of the arrival of the first cow to live inside the Whitehorse town limits made it into the local paper.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 March 1929.))
 The Richards family moved into the Langholtz house sometime after 1925.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens))