User:Americoloner/Horatio Gates Spafford 1778-1832

Horatio Gates Spafford, father of the author of "It is Well with My Soul", who was also called Horatio Gates Spafford, was born in Tinmouth, Vermont in 1778. He was a writer, farmer, inventor, correspondent of presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and compiled the first gazetteer of New York state in 1813.