William Cameron Dunbar (26 October 1822 – 8 June 1905) was a

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and a Mormon pioneer. He was one of the first missionaries of

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(LDS Church) in

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and one of the first in

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Dunbar was born in

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. ''

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'' 4:335. He became a Latter Day Saint in 1840 and was a missionary for the LDS Church in

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and

from 1846 to 1852. In 1849, he joined William Howells and his daughter in France and thus became the third Mormon missionary to preach in that country. On his way to France, Dunbar stopped to preach in

, reporting that when he arrived there were 44 Latter Day Saints, and that he baptized an additional 60. At the conclusion of his mission, in 1852, Dunbar immigrated to Utah Territory. His wife and 2 children were killed en route, and he was injured, when their steamboat on the Missouri River, the Saluda, suffered an explosion of its steam engine. He became a

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in the LDS Church and was sent back to France to be the mission president in 1854 and 1855. Dunbar was one of the founding publishers of the ''

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'' and was a popular comedian, vocalist, and bagpiper in Utah. He died in

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"William Dunbar: Mormon History"
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