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.Hunsicker, C. S. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; a history, by Clifton Swenk Hunsicker, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., US, 1923, page 632. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
On April 28, 1887, he married Mary Humphreys Chandler, daughter of Charles Wesley Chandler (1833 - 1882) and Julia Adelaide Peabody.
Education and career Lewis graduated from Amherst College in 1869, then from Harvard Law School in 1871.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. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1872 and began his practice in the offices of John Christian Bullitt.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.
On March 10, 1873, Lewis and Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr. co-founded law firm Morgan Lewis,UPENN "Charles Eldridge Morgan (1844-1917), PENN Biographies, University of Pennsylvania, 1995. which became Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 1883.
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External links Lewisiana or The Lewis letter — "A Monthly Inter-Family Paper," Elliot, Conn., US, 1887.