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.

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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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