Emerson Edwards (d. 1971)
	
Emerson Edwards was in Alaska in 1896, exploring Cooks Inlet, Turnagain Arm, Nome, and Dyea. He arrived in Dawson in 1898.((Helen Ferby, “Original Settlers, Edwards Go South.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 June 1957.)) He operated a barge for the Yukon Telegraph Company between 1898 and 1900 and delivered supplies to isolated operators along the Yukon River.((“Emerson Edwards.” //Alaska Sportsman,// May 1971.))
	
Emerson and Maude Shaver were married in Dawson in 1903, and a highlight of the day was a blueberry pie-eating contest. Maude was sixteen and did not know much about cooking, so the couple ate mostly peas and cake for the first six months of their marriage.((Helen Ferby, “Original Settlers, Edwards Go South.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 June 1957.)) The family was living on Eighth Avenue in Dawson in March 1908 when their six-day-old infant, Emerson J. Edwards died of “debility”.((Dawson City Mortuary Records, 1898 – 1938. AlaskaWeb.org, 2020 website: http://www.alaskaweb.org/dawmort/e_f.html.)) 

The Edwards lived on many gold-bearing creeks in the Klondike, including Hunker and Bonanza, and spent several years in the Pelly River country.((Helen Ferby, “Original Settlers, Edwards Go South.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 June 1957.)) Shaver prospected on Thistle Creek with his partner Cy Detroz [in the 1920s?]. ((“Emerson Edwards.” //Alaska Sportsman,// May 1971.))
	
In 1941/42, the Edwards briefly ran a restaurant in Whitehorse at the corner of Fourth and Main and watched the droves of American soldiers arrive to build the Alaska Highway. They had a mink ranch near Carcross in the 1940s. The Edwards left their little home on Fifth Avenue in Whitehorse and moved south to British Columbia in 1957.((Helen Ferby, “Original Settlers, Edwards Go South.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 June 1957.))