The lives of the eminent American evangelists Dwight Lyman Moody and Ira David Sankey

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Dwight Lyman Moody was born in 1837 at Northfield, Massachusetts, the son of Edwin Moody (1800-1841) and Betsey Holton Moody (b. 1805) and grandson of Isaiah Moody (1772-1835) and Luther Holton (1777- 1835). Work gives details of his work as an evangelist in England and the United States. Includes information about his father's and grandfathers' families, and traces his line to descent to William Houlton (d. 1691), the immigrant. Ira David Sankey, an evangelist, singer, and composer, was born in 1840 at Edinburgh, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, the son of David and Mary Sankey. He was age 36, when their sketch was written. Philip Paul Bliss, a composer and music teacher was born in 1838 at Rome, near Towanda, Pennsylvania. He married Lucy J. Young of Rome. He and his wife were both composers of gospel music. They were killed in a train accident to 1876 leaving two young sons. Dr. Ebin Tourjée, a distiguished musical director, was born in 1834 at Warwick, Rhode Island, the son a Ebenezer and Anne D. Ball Tourgée, and for Huguenot descent. He married Miss Abbie I. Tuell of Warren, Rhode Island, in 1855. They had four children. She died in 1867. He married 2) Sarah Lee of Newton, Massachusetts. They had two children.

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