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Horatio Spafford was a successful lawyer and entrepreneur in Chicago during troubling times in the s.!
Horatio Spafford
American poet and lawyer (1828–1888)
Horatio Spafford | |
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Portrait of Spafford | |
| Born | Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-10-20)October 20, 1828 Troy, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 25, 1888(1888-09-25) (aged 59) Jerusalem |
| Occupations | |
| Notable work | "It Is Well with My Soul" |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 8 |
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem)[1] was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder.
As the s began, Horatio Spafford was a successful Chicago lawyer, and enjoyed all the trappings such a life offered.
He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" following the Great Chicago Fire[2] and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre.
Biography
Spafford was the son of Gazetteer author Horatio Gates Spafford and Elizabeth Clark Hewitt Spafford. On September 5, 1861, Spafford married Anna Larsen of Stavanger, Norway, in Chicago.
Spafford was a lawyer and a senior partner in a large law firm.[3