Sonoma-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Lodge, John D. 1824 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Lodge, John D. Was born in Yorkshire, England, on December 5, 1824. He emigrated
to the United States in 1845, and settled in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania,
where he resided until 1853, when, on December 5th, of that year, he sailed from
New York on the "Northern Light," to Nicaragua, thence to San Francisco on the
"Sierra Nevada," arriving on December 31, 1853. He immediately proceeded to
Placerville and commenced mining at Iowa Hill, Placer county, continuing in this
business for five years. In 1858 he came to Sonoma county, and settled on a farm
near Petaluma, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for seven years,
then moved to Petaluma, where he has since been in the loan and real estate
business; and also, in 1878, began the sale of sewing machines, and is now
handling several of the different kinds manufactured. While a resident of
Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, he married Miss Martha Noble, on June 11, 1852,
who is a native of Yorkshire, England, and born June 17, 1835. Sarah J., born
November 16, 1853; David E., born January 17, 1856, and Matilda A., born
February 17, 1859, are the names and births of their children.

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Petaluma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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