Popular hymn writers of the day would visit each summer: Ira D. Sankey, William H. Doane, William J. Kirkpatrick, John R. Sweeney, Eliza E. Hewitt, Fanny Crosby, and others.
Sankey ended up watching the city burn from a rowboat far out on Lake Michigan.
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Ira David Sankey, son of David Sankey, known as the father of Lawrence County, and Mary Leeper Sankey, was born August 28, 1840, in Edinburg, on the outskirts of New Castle, Pennsylvania.
Doudney's hymns include The Christian's Good Night, set by Ira D. Sankey in 1884 and sung at Charles Spurgeon's funeral.
Ira Gershwin | Ira Glass | Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade | IRA Army Council | Ira Allen | Ira von Fürstenberg | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook | Ira D. Sankey | Who Cares? (George and Ira Gershwin song) | Ira Steven Behr | Ira Schneider | Ira Remsen | Ira Magaziner | Ira J. Kurzban | Ira Hayes | Ira Cohen | Ira Aldridge | Vernon Sankey | Stuart Sankey | Sankey Viaduct | Ira Terrell | Ira Shor | Ira Sharkansky | Ira Rennert | Ira M. Lapidus | Ira Katznelson | Ira Harris | Ira Gitler | Ira Black | Ira Berlin |
EWI was founded in 1980, when current CEO John Edwin Mroz and Ira D. Wallach set out to address areas of political dispute across the Iron Curtain.
With his wife Miriam, he created a charitable foundation whose beneficiaries included the New York Public Library, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.