Moody, Dwight Lyman (1837-1899), was an American evangelist. He founded the interdenominational Moody Church, the Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers in Chicago (see Moody Bible Institute ). He also established a private high school for girls and another for boys near Northfield, Mass.
Moody was born on Feb. 5, 1837, in East Northfield, Massachusetts. He left a job as a clerk in a Boston shoe store to become a shoe salesman in Chicago in 1856. He devoted all his time to Sunday school and YMCA activities after 1860. He conducted great evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Britain, appearing with Ira D. Sankey, a gospel singer and hymn writer. He died on Dec. 22, 1899.
