Smoot, Brigham, 1869-1946
Biographical History
Brigham Smoot (1869-1946) was a sugar industry manager in Utah and Idaho.
Brigham Roland Smoot was born on June 15, 1869, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Abraham Owen Smoot and Anne Kirstine Mauritzen. He attended Brigham Young Academy, and after graduation was called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He first served in Samoa from 1889 to 1891, and was later sent to Tonga as a missionary from 1891 to 1892. After returning from his mission he attended Lehigh University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in science and chemistry in 1898. Smoot came back to Utah after school, working in the mining industry in Eureka, Utah. It was during this period that he met Margaret Annella Nesbit and they married on June 20, 1900, in Provo, Utah. They had two children together. After his marriage, Smoot turned from mining to join the sugar industry where he studied refining methods in various factories. In 1901, he began working for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company as general supervisor. He retired from the company in 1937 and moved to Pasadena, California.
He died in Pasadena, California, on December 16, 1946.
Citation:
History of Idaho, 1914: p. 1262 (Brigham R. Smoot; b. June 15, 1869 in Salt Lake City, Utah; father: A. O. Smoot; received education in Salt Lake City and Provo schools; attended Lehigh University, graduated 1898 with bachelor's of sciences and chemistry; returned to Salt Lake City, then entered mining industry in Eureka, Utah; later turned attention to sugar beet processing; studied sugar manufacturing in various factories; general supervisor of Utah-Idaho Sugar Company in Lincoln, Idaho)Wikipedia, via WWW, July 10, 2013: Brigham Smoot (Brigham Roland Smoot; b. June 15, 1869 in Salt Lake City, Utah; parents: Abraham O. Smoot and Anne K. Mauritsen; attended Brigham Young Academy; served mission for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Samoa, 1889-1891; sent to Tonga, served 1891-1892; attended Lehigh University; worked for Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1901-1937, became general supervisor; moved to Pasadena, Calif., 1937; d. Dec. 16, 1946 in Pasadena)
Ancestry.com, via WWW, July 10, 2013 (Brigham Smoot; Brigham R. Smoot; Brigham Roland Smoot; b. June 15, 1869 in Salt Lake City, Utah; parents, Abraham Owen Smoot and Anne Kirstine Mauritzen; m. June 20, 1900 in Provo, Utah to Margaret Annella Nesbit (1880-1964), two children; d. Dec. 16, 1946 in Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Brigham Smoot journals and letter, 1889-1892
Contains journals and a letter created and collected by Smoot during his service as a Latter-day Saint missionary in Samoa and Tonga between 1889 and 1892. Also includes transcriptions of the journals prepared by Loretta Nixon.