Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Lodge was born in 1810, in Darby Borough, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Isaac Lodge, was 41 and his mother, Mary Swayne, was 37.
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English loge, logge, lug(g)e (Old French loge) ‘hut, temporary shelter, workshop, occupational cottage (for a gamekeeper, bridge keeper, etc)’. It may have referred to a herdsman's hut and by extension to the cattle farm that was managed from it. Early examples of this surname in East Anglia and Wilts may alternatively have alluded to a forester's or gamekeeper's hut.
History: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential US senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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