Horatio Spafford
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – October 16, 1888, Jerusalem)[1] was a prominent American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul". Horatio was a lawyer in Chicago. He lost all of his possessions in the great Chicago fire. After that, he lost his only son to a disease at the age of four. He then planned a family holiday and was held up for business reasons. His family went ahead any way, on the ship all four of his daughters died and his wife survived.
Horatio Spafford
Other websites
- Photos of Horatio Spafford and a MIDI file of the hymn Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Many details on life of Spafford Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- The Spafford family tragedy
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