Background
Smoot was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory to Abraham O. Smoot and Anne K. Mauritsen. Brigham Smoot graduated from Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, a school for which his father had been the major financial backer.
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Brigham Smoot
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Lehigh University.
Career
Brigham"s older brother Reed Smoot went on to be a United States Senator from Utah. Smoot joined Wood and the other missionaries for a bath in the ocean. While wading in the ocean, Smoot slipped into a deep hole in the reef.
After several minutes, Wood and the other missionaries pulled Smoot from the hole, "perfectly lifeless and dead", with "blood flowing from his eyes, nose and mouth".
After failing to revive him, the missionaries changed Smoot into dry clothing, and Wood gave Smoot a priesthood blessing. As Wood did so, he "felt life come back into Elder Smoot"s body".
After reviving, Smoot 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 hole. Smoot says during this out-of-body experience he touched Wood on the shoulder and had told him that the only way to restore his life was to use the priesthood.
In July 1891, Smoot and Alva J. Butler were sent to Tonga to begin missionary work there.
He returned to Utah in December 1892. Smoot was educated in chemical engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1901, he was employed by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, where he rose to the position of general superintendent.
He retired in 1937 and moved to Pasadena, California, where he died in 1946.
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