Horatio Spafford
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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 (1871), and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre.
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United StatesCategory
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deceased
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Lived 1828 to 1888 · aged 59
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