Brigham Smoot

He was one of the two first Mormon missionaries to preach in Tonga and served as president of the LDS Church's Tongan mission from July 1891 to October 1892.

[3] His family moved to the frontier town of Provo, Utah Territory, when his father was called by Brigham Young to establish a church stake there.

[9][8] Sent to open a mission in July 1891, Smoot and Alva J. Butler became the first LDS missionaries in Tonga.

[10][11][12][13] On July 16, 1891, they met with King George Tupou I, who granted them permission to proselyte in Tonga.

[16]: 16  On January 24, 1892, the first official LDS church meeting was conducted by Smoot and Butler in the mission home.

[18][16]: 13 After returning from his mission, Brigham Smoot graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1898.