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Brigham Roland Smoot

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Brigham Roland Smoot

Birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death
16 Dec 1946 (aged 77)
Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
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Peace-Rose, Gate 17, Section 1, Tier F, Niche 200
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Mormon Missionary and Businessman. Smoot was one of the first missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church) to preach in Tonga. He graduated from Brigham Young Academy in Provo, a school for which his father had been the major financial backer, before earning a degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. In July 1891, Smoot and Alva J. Butler, who were sent to Tonga to undertake missionary work, met with King George Tupou I, who granted them permission to preach Mormonism in Tonga. On Smoot's second day in Samoa, he joined other missionaries for a swim in the ocean. While wading in the ocean, he slipped into a deep hole in the reef. After several minutes, the other missionaries pulled his lifeless body from the hole. After failing to revive him, the missionaries changed him into dry clothing and administered a priesthood blessing. Smoot, however, was revived told the missionaries that he had had an out-of-body experience, and that he had observed the missionaries dragging his body out of the ocean. Smoot would go on to be president of the Tongan Mission of the LDS Church from July 1891 to October 1892. He returned to Utah in December 1892. In 1901, he worked for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, rising to the position of general superintendent. His older brother, Reed, went on to be an apostle in the LDS Church before being elected by the state legislature as United States Senator from Utah in 1904.
Mormon Missionary and Businessman. Smoot was one of the first missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church) to preach in Tonga. He graduated from Brigham Young Academy in Provo, a school for which his father had been the major financial backer, before earning a degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. In July 1891, Smoot and Alva J. Butler, who were sent to Tonga to undertake missionary work, met with King George Tupou I, who granted them permission to preach Mormonism in Tonga. On Smoot's second day in Samoa, he joined other missionaries for a swim in the ocean. While wading in the ocean, he slipped into a deep hole in the reef. After several minutes, the other missionaries pulled his lifeless body from the hole. After failing to revive him, the missionaries changed him into dry clothing and administered a priesthood blessing. Smoot, however, was revived told the missionaries that he had had an out-of-body experience, and that he had observed the missionaries dragging his body out of the ocean. Smoot would go on to be president of the Tongan Mission of the LDS Church from July 1891 to October 1892. He returned to Utah in December 1892. In 1901, he worked for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, rising to the position of general superintendent. His older brother, Reed, went on to be an apostle in the LDS Church before being elected by the state legislature as United States Senator from Utah in 1904.

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