Background
Smith was born in Far West, Missouri, and eventually became a senior leader of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church, now Community of Christ).
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Alexander Smith
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Smith served as an apostle and as Presiding Patriarch of the church. Alexander was ordained an apostle on April 10, 1873, and "served a mission to the Pacific Slope" with David Hyrum Smith in 1875. He was ordained president of the Council of Twelve on April 15, 1890, at Lamoni, Iowa.
He went on a mission to Australia, Hawaii, and the Society Islands in 1901.
Smith was a partner in a photograph gallery before becoming a carpenter. Smith married Elizabeth Agnes Kendall in Nauvoo, on May 23, 1861.
A History of Decatur County, Iowa, published in 1915, provides many details about his life and his personality:
He loved the wide outdoors, land and water and sky, and delighted in athletic sports, holding a record in his younger days as one of the best skaters and one of the two surest shots in the community. Mistress Emma Kennedy and the youngest sons, Joseph G. and Arthur M., resided at Independence, Missouri, while the oldest children, Fred A. and Mistress
Heman C. Smith, were residents of Lamoni, where the widow still lived in their home on the south side.
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Religion
Community Church of Christ