Download or read book The Lives of the Eminent American Evangelists Dwight Lyman Moody and Ira David Sankey written by Elias Nason and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.