William F. Prisk
William Frederick Prisk, Jr. (April 2, 1870-December 21, 1962) was a California newspaper executive. He held posts on the Grass Valley Union (editor and publisher), Evening Telegraph (publisher, typesetter, reporter and business manager), Pasadena Star-News (co-owner with his brother Charles H. Prisk), Long Beach Press-Telegram (editor-publisher). He was elected to the California State Senate in 1897, and at the time, was the youngest member of the California State Legislature. For his many years as editor-publisher of the Press-Telegram, he received the nickname "Mr. Long Beach".[1]
Personal life
Prisk was the second son of William and Mary (Hosking) Prisk, natives of Camborne, Cornwall, England, who settled in Grass Valley, California, US, where his father was a miner.[2] He was born in Grass Valley.[3] He became a naturalized US citizen in 1869.[4] Three years after his death in Long Beach, he was selected to the California Newspaper Publishers Association's Newspaper Hall of Fame.[5] The William F. Prisk Elementary School in the Long Beach Unified School District is named in his honor.[6]
Partial works
- 1895 pictorial history of Nevada County, California
- Nevada county mining review
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