Boarding the steamship Ville du Havre, his family’s ship hit another vessel in the Atlantic, causing 226 people to lose their life. He planned to meet them there at a later time, finishing up his business in America. Two years after losing his four-year-old son to pneumonia, Spafford sent his wife and four remaining daughters to England on vacation, intending for them to meet his friend evangelist Dwight L. The inspiration behind It Is Well With My Soul comes from personal loss. He also had eight children and a loving wife: Anna Spafford. Horatio Gates Spafford had two professions in his life: American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder.
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