There are many people with the name John L. Smith. If you are referring to the Michigan State football coach, yes, he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" Church.)
Unaware of any individual, Mormon or otherwise, with that name.
He was the first white man in Yosemite
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No. But at least one source shows that he had a child named Gordon Smith out of wedlock.
Elias Smith - Mormon - was born in 1804.
Elias Smith - Mormon - died in 1888.
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If you are referring to the explorer of the Rocky Mountains, no. He died only a year after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was organized, and never made it far enough west that year to meet a Mormon. He was a devout Christian with a Methodist background.
No, but Joseph Smith, the founder of the church is.
He was murdered by a group of Comache indians in what is now Ulysses, Kansas. He was 32 at death.
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