Francis Draper Lewis

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Francis Draper Lewis was a Pennsylvania lawyer who co-founded the law firm Morgan Lewis at Philadelphia in 1873 with Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr..

Early life and marriage[]

Born in Boston on August 29, 1849, his parents were Ann Homer (née Kidder) Lewis and Joseph W. Lewis, Lewis Brothers & Company dry-goods wholesale merchant.[1][a][b]

On April 28, 1887, he married Mary Humphreys Chandler, daughter of Charles Wesley Chandler (1833 - 1882) and Julia Adelaide Peabody.[c]

Education and career[]

Lewis graduated from Amherst College in 1869, then from Harvard Law School in 1871.[8] He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1872 and began his practice in the offices of John Christian Bullitt.[9]

On March 10, 1873, Lewis and Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr. co-founded law firm Morgan Lewis,[10] which became Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 1883.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Lewis was a descendant of James Draper, an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and of Puritan pioneer Georges Lewes (1600 - 1663), an early settler at Plymouth Colony. Lewis, a clothier-turned-farmer, also became an early surveyor of highways, and was appointed constable of the town of Barnstable in 1651.[2]
  2. ^ His first cousin, William Draper Lewis,[3] became Dean of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1896.
  3. ^ Chandler was the great-granddaughter of noted American pioneer physician,[4] Jesse Chandler (1764 – 1814), who succumbed to a severe fever known as "the cold plague" in 1814,[5] (later referenced as "Erysipelatous fever" and "Epidemic Erysipelatous Inflammation");[6] Dr. Chandler's brother, Captain John Chandler, is the namesake of Chandlersville, Ohio. [7]

References[]

  1. ^ Hunsicker, C. S. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; a history, by Clifton Swenk Hunsicker, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., USA, 1923, page 632. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. ^ Swift, C. F. reprint of Amos Otis Papers, in Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Volume 2, F. B. & F. P. Goss Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., USA, 1890, page 118. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  3. ^ Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan The Drapers in America, J. Polhemus Printing Company, New York, USA, 1892, pages 67-68. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  4. ^ Chandler, Barb "Emigration and Settlement", Edmund's Community Courier, February 20, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  5. ^ Ohio HS Ohio History, Volume 3, Ohio Historical Society, 1890, page 254. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  6. ^ Allen, J. A. "Epidemic Erysipelatous Fever", by Jonathan A. Allen, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, reprinted in the New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1844.
  7. ^ Cutter, W. R. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Volume 4, by William Richard Cutter, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913, page 1916. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  8. ^ Derdak, T., et al International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 2, by Thomas Derdak and Tina Grant, St. James Press, USA, 1999, page 332. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  9. ^ Hunsicker, C. S. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; a history, by Clifton Swenk Hunsicker, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., USA, 1923, page 632. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  10. ^ UPENN "Charles Eldridge Morgan (1844-1917), PENN Biographies, University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

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