Education
Prevost studied at the Philadelphia Divinity School, receiving his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1890.
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Career
He was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Ozi West. Whitaker. After ordination to the priesthood in 1891, he traveled to Fort Adams on the Yukon River in Alaska, arriving in August 1891. He published the first newspaper in the Interior of Alaska, the Yukon Press, beginning on January 1, 1893.
They returned to Tanana.
He translated portions of the Book of Common Prayer into the Upper Koyukon language, along with hymns and other texts. Prevost served as United States postmaster at Tanana.
In 1906 he left Alaska permanently, returning with his family to Philadelphia. He served as rector of Saint Ambrose"s Church.
He also earned a degree in medicine from Temple University School of Medicine, graduating in 1909.
He continued as a lecturer in medical history at Temple University until 1929. That year he accepted a call to Saint Andrew"s Church, Panama City, Florida. He died in Pughtown, Pennsylvania.
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