Edwards, Rev. Jonathan.  "An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of
Washington."  San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1900.  p. 707.
 
THOMAS PREST

     One of the rising young business men of Spokane, was born in Toronto,
Ontario, in 1872, and the first eighteen years of his life were spent in that
noted Canadian city.  He was a butcher by trade, but on coming west went to work
as a miner in the gold region of California.  After two years of life in the
mining camps, he came to Spokane county and resumed his early occupation.  He
ran the Idaho market for a while, then opened in partnership with Charles
Mulholland at Second and Cedar, where they have a fine market, always well
supplied with everything in their line.  Mr. Prest is an industrious, energetic
young man and one who will succeed in anything he undertakes if success is at
all possible.  Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Foresters, the Red Men and
the Masons.  He was married in California, June 9, 1893, to Miss Mary Edwards
and they have one child, Thomas.
     

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in March 2006 by Diana Smith.  This biography
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