1910 Nevada, Washoe County, Reno City, Precinct 5, E.D. 72, sheet 20A, stamped page 164
729 West Fifth, dwelling 444, family 545
Smith, Preston, B., head, male, white, age 36, married once for 9 years, born California, parents born Virginia, brick contractor
-------, Ida, wife, female, white, age 35, married once for 9 years, mother of 3 children, 3 living, born Nevada, parents born Germany
-------, Lloyd, son, male, white, age 7, single, born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada
-------, Helen, daughter, female, white, age 2, single, born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada
-------, Preston, son, male, white, age 9/12, single, born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada
Fox, Margaret L., nurse?, female, white, age 48, widow, mother of 1 child 1 living, born California, father born Tennessee, mother born Iowa, nurse

1920 Nevada, Washoe County, Reno Township, ward 5, precinct 10, E.D. 52, sheet 17B
1729 West 5th, dwelling 327, family 333
Smith, Preston B., head, owns free, male white, age 46, married, born California, parents born United States, brick contractor
-------, Ida, wife, female, white, 45, married, born Nevada, parents born Germany
-------, Lloyd, son, male, white, age 16, single, born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada
-------, Helen, daughter, female, white, age 11, single, born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada
-------, Francis, son, male, white, age 9, single , born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada

1930 Nevada, Washoe County, City of Reno,E.D. 16-12, sheet 13B (taken 15 Apr 2016)
729 West Fifth Street, dwelling 416, family 516
Smith, Preston B., head, owns, $12000, radio, male, white, age 55, married at age 28, born California, father born Kentucky, mother born Virginia, building contractor
———, Ida, wife, female, white, age 54, married at age 27, born Nevada, parents born Germany, bookkeeper
———, Francis R., son, male, white, age 20, single, born Nevada, father born California, mother born Nevada

1940 Nevada, Washoe County, Reno City, ward 5, E.D. 16-16, sheet 7A, stamped page 237 (taken 9 - 10 Apr 1940)
729 West 5th St., household 170, owns, $7000
Smith, Preston B., head, male, white, age 66, married, 8th grade, born California, lived in same house in 1935, brick construction contractor
———, Ida, wife, female, white, age 65, married, 2 yrs college, born Nevada, lived in same house in 1935

Reno Evening News 16 Aug 1950
Preston Smith Veteran Reno Bricklayer Dies

Prominently identified with the bricklaying and street contracting industries in Reno for nearly a half century, Preston Brooks Smith died at his home on West Fifth street at 10:30 a.m. today. He had been ill for some time.

Mr. Smith was the father of Francis R. Smith, mayor of Reno.

Born in Santa Rosa, Calif. Nov. 15, 1873, Mr. Smith attended school in Sonoma and San Luis Obispo counties and at the age of 14 years he had learned the trade of brick layer.

Coming to Nevada in the fall of 1899 he worked for several months at Wadsworth helping to build the high school there. He then moved to Reno where he has made his home ever since with the exception of about 18 months when he manufactured brick at Susanville and Alturas. He also had a plant at Reno but subsequently sold it to the late C.E. Clough who was president of the Press Brick company.

As a brick manufacturer Mr. Smith was many years ago a member of the form of Smith and Farion and while a manufacturer and brick contractor, he frequently did the actual work of laying brick himself, and did not retire from active work at his trade until 1931. He made the brick and laid them for his own home at 729 West Fifth st., and his contracting included many of the older brick buildings in Reno, the Golden and Overland hotels, Reno central fire station, the old post office building, Mackay school of mines, and the roundhouse at the Southern Pacific shops in Sparks. In 1917 with the late Marius Peterson he founded the firm of Smith Peterson and Company which operates large plants in the Reno area. The concern has supplied rock and sand and other material for nearly all the paving in Reno and vicinity for a good many years. He retired in 1944.

Active in Masonry, Mr. Smith was a member of Reno lodge No. 13, F. and A. M., was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Kerak temple of the Shrine and Adah chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He also held membership in Reno lodge of Elks and the Bricklayers union.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ida Sauer Smith, whom he married in Reno March 2, 1902; two sons, Lloyd P. Smith, professor of physics at Cornell univeristy, Ithaca, N.Y.; Francis R. Smith, mayor of Reno and president of Ready Mix Concrete co., a daughter, Mrs. Jack Heward of Winnemucca and the following grandchildren: Joan Frances Smith, Linda Sue Smith and Robert Gordon Smith of Reno and Barbara Heward and Harlan P. Heward of Winnemucca.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Ross-Burke company.