# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horatio-spafford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:17.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horatio-spafford"
name: "Horatio Spafford"
slug: "horatio-spafford"
description: "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 (1871), and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre."
tagline: "American poet and lawyer (1828–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horatio_Spafford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1828-10-20"
deathDate: "1888-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.03
  momentum:             0.553922878261644
  historical:           8.959969333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هوراتيو سپافورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Horatio Spafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford"
    title: "Horatio Spafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford"
    title: "Horatio Spafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford"
    title: "Horatio Spafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford"
    title: "Horatio Spafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "הוריישו ספאפורד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford"
    title: "Horatio Spafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford"
    title: "Horatio Spafford"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3306153"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump