Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Preston, an incorporated city of the third class in Pratt county, is located in Haynesville township at the junction of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Missouri Pacific railroads, 12 miles northeast of Pratt, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Pilot), telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population in 1910 was 278.

Page 501 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.