OBIT: L. K. LODGE, 1890, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ SUPERINTENDENT LODGE. DEATH OF THE HEAD OF THE ALTOONA DIVISION. After a Brief Illness He Passes Away - Pneumonia Was the Cause of Death. HIS BODY TO BE TAKEN TO LEWISBURG. It is Likely That the Funeral Will Take Place on Friday - He was Highly Esteemed. Mr. L. K. Lodge, Superintendent of the Altoona division, Pennsylvania railroad, died at his residence in this city, at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning after a brief illness of pneumonia. The announcement of his disease was received with deep regret not only by the community at large, but also, and more especially by his colleagues among the officials and the employes of the division, with whom he was deservedly popular. Mr. Lodge was a native of Lower Merion, Montgomery county, and was only about 40 years of age when he died. He spent the whole of his active life in the service of the Pennsylvania railroad company, having been a member of the engineer corps engaged in building the Southwest Pennsylvania railway in 1870. He was made assistant engineer of the Tyrone division in 1872, and was the first assistant engineer in charge of the maintenance of way department of that division. He was transferred to the New York division in 1873 and was afterward made superintendent of a division on the Northern Central railway, and subsequently, in 1882, superintendent of the Central division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railroad, with headquarters at Media. Since July 1, 1890, he had served as superintendent of the Altoona division and in that brief time had won the confidence and affection of the employes. He was, in short, one of the best known and most popular officers of the Pennsylvania railroad company. Mr. Lodge was married in 1886 to Miss Annie, daughter of Dr. Wilson, of Lewisburg, who with one son, "Jack," survives to mourn his loss. His father, several sisters, and one brother, Dr. John W. Lodge, all of Merion, also survive him. The funeral will probably be private, as also the interment at Lewisburg on Friday afternoon. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 1, 1891