Original: Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York - October 16, 1888, Jerusalem)Source of middle name and birth/death information was a prominent American lawyer, best known for penning the Christian hymn It Is Well With My Soul, following a family tragedy in which four of his daughters died.
Simplified: Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York - October 16, 1888, Jerusalem) is the author of the hymn It Is Well with My Soul.