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Percy Fremlin Scharschmidt (1868 – 1932)
	
Percy Fremlin Scharschmidt was born in Kent, England. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1887. He moved west and practiced medicine in Nanaimo until 1892. He abandoned his medical practice first for mining and then other activities in places around British Columbia.((Yukon Archives, “Scharschmidt, Percy Fremlin, 1868 – 1932.” Biographical sketch.)) 

In 1897, Scharschmidt was special correspondent in Skagway, Alaska for the //Victoria Daily Colonist.// He started the \\Bennett Sun\\ newspaper at Bennett, British Columbia.((Valerie Alis, //Un/Covering the North: News, Media and Aboriginal People.// Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999: 125.)) Percy Scharschmidt married Rosalie Maud Butler (1869 – 1911) sometime in the late 1880s. Rosalie was the elder sister of brothers Bruce, Claud and Jeff Butler. The brothers lived in the Lake Bennett and Atlin area from around 1896 to 1926. They mined and cut wood for the lake boats and the railway.((Yukon Archives, Butler family fonds.))
	
Scharschmidt’s //Bennett Sun// was edited and managed for a few months in 1900 by Albert Miller Rosseau.((“Death of A.M. Rousseau: Editor of the Weekly Star Passes Away on November 8.” //The Weekly Star// (Whitehorse), 12 November 1920.)) Scharschmidt moved the paper to Whitehorse when the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway was completed in 1900. He changed the name of the paper from the //Bennett Sun// first to the //Northern Star// and then to //The White Horse Star.//((“The history of the Whitehorse Star, 1900-1977.” 2021 website: //ExploreNorth,// http://www.explorenorth.com/yukon/whitehorse_star-history-1977.html)) 

In 1900, Sam McEacheren and A.M. Rousseau partnered to buy the //Whitehorse Daily Star.//((Margaret Crook, Norma L. Felker, and Helen Horback, //Lost Graves.// Whitehorse, 1989: 7.)) Scharschmidt moved on to work for WP&YR in their river division. He was superintendent of the British Yukon Navigation Co. when he retired in 1911.((Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1907) WP&YR. RGI  II-I; Yukon Archives, “Scharachmidt, Percy Fremlin, 1868 – 1932.” Biographical sketch.)) 
	
Dr. P.F. Scharschmidt from Whitehorse and his two sons, Howard and Guy, enlisted during the First World War. Guy was a surveyor.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., 2017: 15.)) Captain H. B. Scharschmidt and Lieutenant Guy Hope Scharschmidt of Whitehorse were at the front or on their way in August 1915. Lieutenant [Guy] Scharschmidt was wounded in action.((P. D. Bushe, “Yukoners at the front in the great war.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1915.)) Percy Scharschmidt returned from the war with the rank of major. He settled in Vancouver and took up general brokerage.((Yukon Archives, “Scharschmidt, Percy Fremlin, 1868 – 1932.” Biographical sketch.))