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.1) Fred Langholtz married Bernadine Piper Richards’ mother. At that time Langholtz had a dray business in the store later taken over by Mr. Sewell.2)
In 1923, the stable was disassembled and taken across the river to Langholtz’ property on Wickstrom Road where it was reassembled as a house.3) 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.4) 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.5)
The Richards family moved into the Langholtz house sometime after 1925.6)