Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem)[1] 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[2] and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre.
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