Arizona republican., 1898-05-09
PREACHER DIED A PAUPER.
Career of the Author of There's
 Light in the Window for Thee"

The Rev. Edward Dunbar, who wrote the old Sunday school song, There's 8 Light in the Window for Thee, Brother" sleeps in pauper's grave at Coffeyville, Kan, where he died tramp in the town jail two years ago. His name became a byword in the places where he was known, and from a prison cell he went forth a vaga bond upon the fact of the earth. in 1867 Dunbar was arrested at Leaven- worth while engaged in holding a series of revival meetings, and taken to Minneapolis, Minn., where he was tried for bigamy, convicted, and sent to the penitent1ary for three years and eight months.
 One night in the spring of 1896 Dun bar applied at the Coffeyville jail for | lodging. He was ill, and the authori- ties took him in. He died the next | day. Papers in his pockets revealed his identity, and showed that he had | tramped all over the country. Some church people have erected marble slab over his grave, on which these words are inscribed:
 Here lies Edward Dunbar, who wrote There's a Light in the Window 1 for Thee, Brother"
 l When Dunbar was a small boy he lived in New Bedford, Mass, and worked in factory. His mother lived at the foot of the street on which the 1 factory was located, and as the lads work kept him away after dark, she always placed light in the window to guide his footsteps homeward. One day the boy took notion to go to sea. and of he went for three years cruise. During his absence his mother fell i'll, and was at deaths door. She ! talked necessarily about her boy and every night she asked those around her to place a light in the window in anticipation of his return. When she realized that the end had come, she said: "Tell Edward that I will set a light in the window of heaven for him." These were her last words. The lad had grown to manhood ere he returned home, and his mother S dying message had such an effect upon | him that he reformed and became a preacher. In the course of his refor- nation he wrote the song There's a Light in the Window for Thee, Brother"
 The Rev. Edward Dunbar married young lady of New Bedford and sev-
 eral children were the result of the
 union. The young divine soon made
 a reputation as brilliant pulpit era
 tor, and the public was, therefore greatly surprised when one Sunday morning he skipped the country. leay- ing his wife and children behind. He
 came to Kansas, and after snatchiae
 brands from the burning in different parts Of the state he swooped down
 upon the city Of Minneapolis, Minn.
 and began to show people the error o1
 their way
 T A great revival followed and hun.
 dreds were converted. Miss E1n;ce
 Been Lewis, handsome young Eeir.
 ess Of Minneapolis, was one of the
 converts. She fell in love with tht
 evangelist and married him against
 the wishes of her friends.
 Shortly after the wedding Dunbal
 returned to Kansas to fill an engage
 ment at Leavenworth. While he wa;
 away the friends of the bride. who
 had mistrusted the evangelist al along, laid their suspicious before w
 D. Webb, lately judge of the Sec
 ond judicial district of Kansas, ant
 Judge Austin H. Young, who were Jaw
 partners in Minneapolis, and they tool
 the case. The result was that the,
 soon found evidence sufficient to war
 rant an arrest, and Dunbar's minis terial career was brought to a suddeI , close
 After Dunbar's incarceration Judg Young secured divorce for Mrs Dunbar and married her himself. The, now live happily together in Mime apolis.
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