DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY (1837-1899) was born in Northfield, Massachusetts. At seventeen he went to Boston to work in his uncle's shoe merchant business. He attended a Congregational church and became a converted Christian. In 1856 he moved to Chicago and worked at a shoe store. He taught Sunday-school classes and souls were saved as a result. In 1862, he married Emma Revel, sister of Fleming Revel. Fleming H. Revel Publishing subsequently published many of his works. He had a long fruitful relationship with Ira D. Sankey, as a traveling evangelist to Great Britain as well as to America.