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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.
Spafford Hymn Manuscript Peace Like a River / It is Well with my Soul - as originally penned by Horatio Spafford, at the site on the ocean where his children drowned in a ship collision. The Spafford Children's Center founded by the American Colony and named after its founders, Anna and Horatio Spafford. Still active today. 11/25/2023.
According to the website of the Spafford Children's Center, history written by the Spafford family, [1] and the Library of Congress, American Memory Timeline, [2] their son, Horatio Goertner Spafford was born on November 16, 1876 after the tragedy of the four girls' death in 1873. He died on February 11, 1880.
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Today the American Colony Hotel calls itself an oasis of neutrality in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. [4] It is still owned by descendants of the Spaffords. A grandson, Horatio Vester, was the manager until he retired in 1980. [5] His wife, Valentine, lived in the hotel until her death in June 2008. [6]
"It Is Well With My Soul", also known as "When Peace, Like A River", is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss.First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2 by Ira Sankey and Bliss (1876), it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.
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