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.