supported the administration in the conduct of the war with Spain, and as chairman of the committee on the Philippines he largely counteracted the efforts of the "Anti-Imperialists" in New England who sought to change the policy of the administration in reference to the war against the insurgents, and to turn over the government of the islands to the Filipinos.
He was married June 29, 1871, to Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles Henry and Harriette Blake (Mills) Davis, residing at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of the Honorable Elijah Hunt (1776-1829) senator from Massachusetts, and Harriette (Blake) Mills; and their children were Constance Davis Lodge, born April 6, 1872; George Cabot Lodge, born October 10, 1873, and John Ellerton Lodge, born August 1, 1876. They made their home at Nahant, Massachusetts, and their son, George Cabot Lodge, was graduated at Harvard A.B., 1895, and is the author of four volumes of poems: "The Song of the Wave" (1899-1902); "Poems" (1903); "Cain," a drama (1904); "The Great Adventure" (1905).
Senator Lodge commenced his literary career as assistant editor of the "North American Review," 1874-76. His essay, "Land Law of the Anglo-Saxons," formed one of a volume of essays on Anglo-Saxon law, and for the essay he received the degree of Ph.D. from Harvard in June, 1876. In 1877 he published " Life and Letters of George Cabot," who was his great grandfather and the first secretary of the United States navy, 1798. He began his lectures on the history of the American colonies at Harvard university, 1875, and continued them for two years, taking as his subject the history of the United States. He resigned this lectureship in May, 1879. In March, 1879, he assumed with John T. Morse, Jr., the editorship of the "International Review," and he delivered the Fourth of July oration before the city government of Boston that year, and also wrote the article "Albert Gallatin" for the Encyclopedia Britannica. In March, 1880, he delivered a course of six lectures on the "English Colonies in America" before the Lowell Institute, Boston. He also wrote for the New York "Nation" and published essays and reviews in the "Atlantic Monthly," the "International Review," and the "Magazine of American History." He edited two series of Popular Tales and a collection of Ballads and Lyrics for use in the public schools (1879-80). In 1881 he published "A Short History of the
