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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.
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]
Nate Rhoades, 21, died following a January 2022 car crash in California after he managed to get sober from an addiction. His parents opened a nonprofit wellness and recovery center named in their ...
The Pennsylvania parents of a 21-year-old blind and deaf man with cerebral palsy who died in September after being starved for months have been charged in connection to his death, authorities ...
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.
Amidst her son's battle, Arivia had to work to justify her son's absences to the school district. "I was explaining the situation like my child didn't just go through something traumatic.
"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.