Horatio Spafford
American lawyer
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Horatio Gates Spafford was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn It Is Well With My Soul following the Great Chicago Fire and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage... Wikipedia
Born: October 20, 1828, Troy, NY
Died: October 16, 1888 (age 59 years), Jerusalem
Children: Bertha Hedges Spafford, Grace Spafford, and Horatio Goertner Spafford
Partner: Anna Spafford (1861–)
Parents: Elizabeth Clark Hewitt Spafford and Horatio Gates Spafford