William C. Dunbar

[1] He became a Latter Day Saint in 1840 and was a missionary for the LDS Church in England and France 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.

[2] On his way to France, Dunbar stopped to preach in Jersey, reporting that when he arrived there were 44 Latter Day Saints, and that he baptized an additional 60.

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.

[1] Dunbar was one of the founding publishers of the Salt Lake Herald and was a popular comedian, vocalist, and bagpiper in Utah.