Francis Draper Lewis was a Pennsylvania lawyer who co-founded the law firm Morgan Lewis at

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in 1873 with Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr.

Early life and marriage

Born in

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on August 29, 1849, his parents were Ann Homer (née Kidder) Lewis and Joseph W. Lewis, Lewis Brothers & Company dry-goods wholesale merchant. 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

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in 1869, then from

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in 1871. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1872 and began his practice in the offices of John Christian Bullitt. 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

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in 1883.

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References

External links

''Lewisiana'' or ''The Lewis letter'' — "A Monthly Inter-Family Paper," Elliot, Conn., USA, 1887.
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