Jesse Nathaniel Smith (December 2, 1834 – June 5, 1906) was a Mormon pioneer, church leader, colonizer, politician and frontiersman.

Together they had seven children: Charles, Charity, Curtis Stevens, Samuel, Stephen, Susan and Asahel.

After the death of his first wife, Silas courted Mary Aikens while she was teaching school in Stockholm and they married in 1828.

At the age of twelve, Jesse N. drove his Uncle John's two yokes of oxen on the journey.

When he arrived in Salt Lake City for departure he was told he would serve in the Scandinavia Mission.

The church leadership asked him, his mother and brother to help settle Parowan, Utah in 1851.

Smith returned to report his findings to John Taylor, who had succeeded Young.

In 1884, he was assigned to a committee for the church to purchase land in Mexico for Mormon colonization.

Jesse N. Smith died unexpectedly at his home in Snowflake after battling an illness.