Joseph Smith and grandson of Joseph Smith, the frontier missionary, he graduated from Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College) in 1815 and attended Princeton Theological Seminary from 1817 to 1818.
[1] He was licensed to preach in 1819 and worked as a missionary in Virginia from 1818 to 1822.
He was President of Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio from 1837 to 1838.
Smith died in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
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